I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back of my head — like it’s in captivity. Sometimes people expect that I’m going to be tough. It’s not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”

Never tell a crazy person he’s crazy.

It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].