Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.

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.

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

In the '80s, I thought I'd be a success as a woman if I were the president of a billion dollar company, had a sensitive soul-mate husband, two bilingual children, buns of steels, and a compost heap. In the '90s, I pretty much feel I'm a success if I can get through the afternoon without eating a cheesecake.