'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'

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

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

'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.'

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