“I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.”
“She turned and smiled. “Kitchen-sink pasta.”“My favorite. But you really ought to come up with a better name for it than kitchen-sink pasta. Sounds only slightly more appealing than bathtub gefilte fish.”She shuddered. “Who in god’s name would make bathtub gefilte fish?”“I dated a Jewish girl whose grandmother made it,” I laughed.”
“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
“...the great theme of the private journal in the 20th century is sickness.”
“If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.”
“I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.”