“What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.”
“The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.”
| Isabel Allende, Writer (1942) |
| Irving Babbitt, Critic (1865) |
| James A. Baldwin, Author (1924) |
| Jim Capaldi, Musician (1944) |
| Caleb Carr, Novelist (1955) |
| James Fallows, Journalist (1949) |
| Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Composer (1905) |
| Lance Ito, Judge (1950) |
| Victoria Jackson, Comedian (1959) |
| George Kimble, Historian (1908) |
| Enrico Caruso, Musician (1921) |
| Thomas Gainsborough, Artist (1788) |
| Warren G. Harding, President (1923) |
| John Keegan, Historian (2012) |
| Fritz Lang, Director (1976) |