„As my grandmother used to say – One of the uses of money is that it allows us not to live with the consequences of our mistakes.“

„Brook´s mother is much too beautiful for her own and everyone else´s good. (…) The only relation that anyone – man, woman, child, even her own children – can have with her is a flirtatious one.“

„Once at their place on the Cape when i was there for dinner, Barbara and Brooks got Tony to read the Marquis de Sade out loud. He didn´t read particularly well. (…) It struck me as very peculiar.“

„It was a terrific aging actress role that Barbara Baekeland eventually played. she couldn´t get over the fact that she´d been John Jacob Astor´s gilrfriend for a minute. It was a theme, it was constantly there. It was her notion of herself and that´s what her behaviour was based on.“

„She wound up conceiving her own killer.“

„Official Visitors File, Broadmoor Hospital: Maternal grandmother still seems less disturbed by her daughter´s death than by the fact that her dear little Tony is in trouble. She seems just as mad as the rest of the family.“