“If we call these foothills, can we call the little trees 'foot trees?''' (While driving in the foothills.)

'The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.'

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

'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'

'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)