It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.

I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.

One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight.

If I have anything, it's tenacity.

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't.

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

We can influence the future but not see it.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.