When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'