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People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

We all have our ambassador that we send forward into the world. We all have people we are varying degrees of real with. There's a public face we all wear. As I get older and more comfortable in my skin, I am trying to combine the two so the real me is there all the time.

To see a doll of yourself is very weird and very neat at the same time.