'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.'

“If all the people in the world were nice could we just get rid of the word mean?”

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

“I wasn't yawning, I was just letting some fresh air into my mouth.” (After being accused of being tired.)

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.