Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.
I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.
It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.
The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.
You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. . . But I may flout the standards?. . . Of course. What do you think standards are for?
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.