'Daddy, how many whoppers are there in those tall trees?' After waking up in the car while driving through Calaveras Big Trees and hearing daddy say, 'Wow, that's a whopper of a tree.'

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

“This is our house. And this is America Online.” (While pointing at a map of the North American continent.)

'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.