"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."

"The best thing about being rich is the freedom freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck."

"I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness."

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

"For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime."