Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

In some ways I'm very structured.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

I’ve never quite understood why the knuckleheads of the planet so outnumber the rest of us.

Miracle centered gospels cripple the present and generations to come.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control, you are birth control.

I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?

You have a right to have a feather duster. If anyone breaks in, you can make sure they're really clean as they're robbing your house.