I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.

My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

It is the strongest, not the prettiest birds that conquer the sky.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.

The replacement of negative thought with positive thought brings about a spiritual and physical change that can heal.

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

Bye-bye, Elan. P.S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.