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

'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.

'There is no such thing as 'fun for the whole family.''

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