Crossing the Sauer: a memoir of World War II (2002)

• Thank God for the mind. It's the only place where we have freedom of speech.
  • Page 125

• Chance dictates everything.
  • Page 176

Through a Portagee Gate (2004)

• He is gone now. His shop is gone. Weld Square is gone.
  His life has been wiped clean off the board.
  But I wake in the night and I see his face and I hear his voice.
  • Prologue

Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934 (2005)

• "The Portuguese are the unknown people. We are lost in this vast country. Nobody knows we are here. To be Portuguese in America is to be a stone dropped in the middle of the ocean. It sinks beneath the waves and vanishes without a trace."
  • Page 101