"In my mother’s will (of all places!) she wrote, 'In the event that my son Jacob should prove to be a writer, I would like him to use the name Goldstein or Tzirlson'."
"I grew up in a small apartment that had a real French watercolor painting on the wall, along with two small Dutch oil paintings, a marble bust, a China closet filled with cut glass, and expensive mahogony furniture." (Fragment)