“I am but a draper in a room of wool, looking at the patterns, feeling like a fool. I'm going to take my fabric, stretch it to the seams, I want to find what's woven underneath these tailored dreams”

“If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.”

“Life is, without a doubt, complex and confusing. My faith is my sanity. There are people who choose to live on the surface of things. I have yet to find the surface. And with all the beauty in the underneath, I am not certain I want to live on the surface should I find it. I stopped looking a long time ago.”

“I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is.”

“I am a 100 percent, dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying believer in the dream.”

“It was very difficult not to want to go into acting because it is in my blood and I still feel to this day that a dressing room is like another home.”

“What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.”

“Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.”

“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.”

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”