"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."

"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place."

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

"I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair."

"I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."