"[Aunt Tandy] had her face lifted so often that they used a zipper instead of stitches" (Chapter 1, p. 7).

"If you're Jewish with a ho-hum IQ, man, you're in real trouble. The family looks on it as a disgrace second only to convenient to Christianity." (Chapter 2, p. 25).

"I'm not going to explain my teaching. I'm not interested in your good opinion. I don't care whether you like me or or hate me. But you're going to pass that exam, and if at moment I think you're not, because you're not doing what I tell you, then we stop" (Chapter 3, p. 46).

"I'd never before tried to tell anyone - least of all a grown-up - that I liked him. The words were piling up in the back of my throat until I could almost feel my eyes bulge. But nothing came out" (Chapter 4, p. 67).

"Are you quite sure you can't...