There is no such thing as a race without its own cooking. Or even without its daily bread. (43) - Margo Glantz

All of us, no matter whether noble or not, have our own family trees. (Prologue)

my brother-in-law says I don't seem Jewish, because Jews, like our first cousins the Arabs, hate images. So everything is mine and yet it isn't, and I look Jewish and I don't and that is why I am writing this- my family history, the story of my own family tree. (Prologue)

It doesn't matter much whether you're a Jew or not, what matters is whether you're willing to fight against the herd instinct. (13)