“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
“I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.”
| Don Adams, Comedian (1926) |
| Roberto Calvi, Businessman (1920) |
| Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Politician (1933) |
| Susan Davis, Politician (1944) |
| Peter Davison, Actor (1951) |
| Jeffrey Eugenides, Novelist (1960) |
| Thomas Jefferson, President (1743) |
| Garry Kasparov, Celebrity (1963) |
| Howard Keel, Actor (1919) |
| Jacques Lacan, Psychologist (1901) |
| Bruno Bauer, Theologian (1882) |
| Annie Jump Cannon, Scientist (1941) |
| Jean De La Fontaine, Poet (1695) |