“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”

“I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.”

“I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.”

“It isn’t a case of marriage having been tried and found wanting. In this 20th century world, true marriage is deeply wanted, but largely untried.”

“In this convoluted world where sex has become a party favor rather than a solemn, beautiful part of love between two people, I think virginity is sexy. I don't like promiscuity. Oddly, at the turn of the 20th century, even men were expected to wait until marriage to indulge. I think that's sexy, too. Okay, I'm a dinosaur, I admit it. I don't belong in the modern world.”

“I firmly believed that with the breadth of knowledge now makes it impossible for someone to be a polymath in the 20th century-until I met Dr.Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad.”