'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)

“I like lights on buildings, because without them you wouldn't be able to see all the beauty in the world.” (About the lights on the football field at the local highschool.)

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

'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.