"One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise."

"Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom."

"Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone."

"Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers."

"What could be more important than a cup of tea?"

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"