“I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.”
“Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.”
| Benjamin Carson, Scientist (1951) |
| Pete Cashmore, Businessman (1985) |
| Debbi Fields, Businesswoman (1956) |
| June Foray, Actress (1917) |
| James Gandolfini, Actor (1961) |
| Greta Garbo, Actress (1905) |
| Samuel Johnson, Author (1709) |
| Alexander Bain, Philosopher (1903) |
| Leonhard Euler, Mathematician (1783) |
| Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat (1961) |
| Gwen John, Artist (1939) |
| Corita Kent, Artist (1986) |
| John Langdon, Politician (1819) |
| Robert N. Lee, Writer (1964) |