My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It's what you make of it, you know?

I love crazy, gaudy bling.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.

One of the reasons I wanted to collaborate with Target is because I felt that together we could create a collection that would inspire - one that is cool and chic, but still very accessible.

I have always had a relationship with clothes.

There is a secret hippie within me.

The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes, ” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-​u-​i and not w-​e-​e.

I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.

If this were the fifties, she’d be checking Sam’s collars for lipstick stains. (Did people do that anymore? Why did women kiss collars, anyway? Besides, Sam almost always wore T-shirts.)

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

I am of the religion of all those who are brave and good.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Everything begins with a thought, and thoughts are turned into plans, and plans into reality.

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.