After being told he couldn't eat a cookie with an article referenced about effects of sugar: 

You base my life on articles.  You should go on your gut instinct.  Articles are other people's opinion. You read  and you read those parenting books, I know you do.  And they tell you if we get mad, to be more strict with them and then when that happens, we get more mad. Then its harder for you guys and you don’t know what to do because you never trust your instincts.  This is the truth. 

I don't understand myself.  My life is a big question mark. 

Daddy just tries to protect us.  He is worried that what happened to him when he was a kid will happen to me.  But he is thinking about the past, not what is happening now.

Walking very slowly carrying his plant, worried about the sun and heat, "I might be over protective. They told us we are our plant's parents, I named him Matt Kemp Jr."

Me:  You have the same chance of winning the lottery as you do of having debris from an airplane land on your head or becoming president.

M:  Well, I think I have a pretty good chance to become president.