“My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a sh...” — Candace Bushnell Quote

“My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'”

“'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'”

“Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.”

“You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.”

“I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.”

“I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.”

“My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.”

“My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.”

“I've got one of those over-stuffed leather chairs from the Pottery Barn. It faces north. I live in San Francisco, so there's the Golden Gate Bridge off to the left, and there's Alcatraz off to the right, and I've got a pile of pulp fiction next to me, and there's usually a decent bottle of red wine next to the fireplace.”

“If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?”

“I'm just disappointed the folks never took a picture of me when I was five years old jumping off the barn into a haystack with my Superman cape.”