“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''

"That's the store that we need to go to and open the door and put our money in." (At age 3. While driving by the new Toys 'R' Us.)

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

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

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