"Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want."

“Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.”

“I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)”

“A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.”

Source : "Between Friends". Interview with Jenny Allen, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 7, 2010.

“In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.”

“I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.”

“There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot, and they follow every single line in their own script. They make amazing movies, and I admire them so much, but I can't do that. I have no idea how the movie will exactly be. While shooting, I just try to create an accident that I don't control very well - grabbing things from different sources and ideas, and then having a sensation somewhere that it will make sense.”

“I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.”

“When you study art history, you learn that there is very little that is completely new, and in many ways digital art is no different. I love to derive inspiration from all types of images: mosaics, hieroglyphics, petroglyphs, woven patterns in textiles, and needlework. There is a lot of very good "pixel" design work before the 20th century, like a 1760 sampler by Elizabeth Laidman that looks like a bitmap font.”