I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Happiness is in love, in service, and in beautiful memory.

we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

In truth, the world is a complicated place.

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.

what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

I should get a manicure more often.

I fight not for myself, I fight for the audience.