"Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs"

"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."

"As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now."

"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."