I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.

The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design.

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

People in Shanghai make a lot more money than the farmers in the rice paddies. The rice-paddy farmers are not buying Louis Vuitton bags, but the upwardly mobile ones in Shanghai, who are all working in Wall Street-type firms, are infinitely better-dressed than people in the West. Their women take this fashion thing seriously.

Any way that I can use my career or my platform to push along transgender visibility in the mainstream and society serves me on a personal level in that it will make day-to-day existence when I'm not doing this that much easier.

I have always said that the debate about who should play in goal is part of the game, but I never play in order to silence anyone.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. It is to create something that will.

When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebody had made a mistake, and they made an offer that was supposed to be $2,500 for the job, but they offered $25,000. I couldn't turn that down. I'd never heard of anything like that!