I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.