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

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

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

"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.)

'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.'