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

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

'I'm not beautiful, I'm pretty!' (Angrily at age 2 and a half. After getting into his sister's toy makeup case and being called beautiful...)

'Dank Dank' (Reflecting his inability to accept compliments for several years.)

'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.'