“For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.”
“I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.”
| Matt Cameron, Musician (1962) |
| Joe Dante, Director (1946) |
| Alistair Darling, Politician (1953) |
| Friedrich Engels, Philosopher (1820) |
| Carol Gilligan, Psychologist (1936) |
| Ed Harris, Actor (1950) |
| Gary Hart, Politician (1936) |
| Matsuo Basho, Poet (1694) |
| Enrico Fermi, Physicist (1954) |
| Washington Irving, Writer (1859) |