"The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition."

"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."

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

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

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