Not all shabby is chic, just like not every porn actor is a star.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.