The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

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.

You work hard and sweat it out only when doing something for which you were not born

Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.

Healthy life is a sacred being.

I don't know if ghouls are allowed to live either. But there has to be a reason we exist.

Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.

Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?

I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.

I just got my work visa to shoot American Horror Story, and my official status is "alien with extraordinary abilities."

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.