I hope they get here soon. The kids are biting at the chomp.

'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.'

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.

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

'Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.'