I'm structured with time.

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.

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

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.

It’s a terrible person who listens to what we say rather than what we mean

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

Calling holistic medicine "alternative medicine" is no longer appropriate. The best approach now is "integrated medicine" in which we take the best of both worlds.

It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.