Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.

When you have snowflakes in the clouds in the sky and you have mountains, you get snow. That's how it works.

“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.

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