"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."

"You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought."

"It's such a happiness when good people get together."

"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."

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