When a timid mouse who is a mom needs to be a hero, she does it, because that's what moms do.

Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.

Sometimes it's hard to accept one's inner weirdo.

Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

More often than not a young couple stays in the same relationship, but they walk in different directions.

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice

Keeping Christ in Christmas" is like showing up at someone's house every year, insisting on a party they never planned and never agreed to.

Best to have only a few absolutely perfect trait - for example, my hair and eyes and sparkling personality - so you don't overwhelm.

The only thing that ever made me want to be a wife-beater is being called one. Your honor, can I have five minutes to make her not a liar, please?

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.