"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."

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

"I can always live by my pen."

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