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

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

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

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

"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.)