Men date. Women have relationships.

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.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!

God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.

I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms. Then after twenty years, she left.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.