- Aaron: There are synagogues on almost every block. tiny ones on the side streets, large temples on the Avenue. Over the years I have spoken in most of them. I also know the funeral parlors. Sometimes I imagine they're a kind of cafeteria where one can get a quick eulogy or kaddish on the way to eternity.
- Rabbi: People come... people go... death... Los Angeles...
- translator: Believe me, it is not easy to translate Gertrude stein into Yiddish.
- Critic: Who needs Gertrude Stein in Yiddish?
- Aaron: [Narrating about Esther's vision] It had seemed utter nonsense, but now I began to reappraise the idea. If time and space are nothing more than forms of perception as Kant argues, why shouldn't Hitler confer with his Nazis in a cafeteria on Broadway?
- Esther: [to Aaron about her strange vision in the cafeteria] Those are the plain facts. Why would I make up such queer things?
- Gruenwald: [to Aaaron and Esther] The Nazis are gone, but the German bureaucrats are still with us.