I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

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 want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.

I can't believe that's true. Why would Giacomo fall for someone like me? (Simona)Because you've given him what other women haven't. You've given him your trust and honesty. (Leena)

I've found that replacing one thing for another only means you don't yet know where the glitches are.

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that - similar to me.

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.