After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.

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

Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.

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.

What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

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

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.