'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.

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

"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.)

“I wasn't yawning, I was just letting some fresh air into my mouth.” (After being accused of being tired.)