When an attractive but ALOOF ("cool") man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants. There are thousands of scientific concepts as to why this is so, and yes, yes, it's very sick but none of this helps.

He's picked clean! Eaten by cats!

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.