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

'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...)

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

'There is no such thing as 'fun for the whole family.''

'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.'