I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.

I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.

I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.