"I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes."

"What they had talked themselves into, they could be silent out of."

"Do not mistake energy for enthusiasm; the softest speakers are often the most enthusiastic of men."

"How do you say ‘delicious’ in Cuban?"

"If I knew that it was fated for me to be sick, I would even wish for it; for the foot also, if it had intel…"

"He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live."

"She cried in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head."