For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era.

The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.

I'm perfectly happy and rewarded and fulfilled where I am.

I think optimism is in the eyes of the beholder.

Don’t let anyone steal your milk.

Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.