"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."

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

"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."

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