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) - Margo Glantz

Zoom and other outlets deform our images, making us lose our actual bodies, and with the possibility of contacting each other this way—we become holograms, or ghosts like Justine from Bioy Casares’s great novel, The Invention of Morel.

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

Perhaps what attracts me about my Jewish past and present is an awareness of its vividness, its colour and its grotesqueness, the same awareness that makes real Jews a minor race with a major sense of humour, with their ordinary cruelty, their unfortunate tenderness and their occasional shamelessness. (Prologue)