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

'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.'

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

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.