As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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

“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.)

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

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