Other thoughtful year-round gestures to staff included silver picture frames for wedding anniversaries, flowers to ailing spouses, additional checks for medical bills and even a pet dog

Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received ... jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese

Luggage and guests did not travel together ... in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to guest rooms before they arrived

Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

Cleaning the wound is often more painfulthan the cut itself.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!

The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect.

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

If I wasn't dead already, I'd said I was having a heart attack.

The most important thing we do is not doing.

We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it.