"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 pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income."

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

"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."

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