“I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.”
“The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.”
| Leo Baekeland, Inventor (1863) |
| Travis Barker, Musician (1975) |
| Jim Cantalupo, Businessman (1943) |
| Wendy Carlos, Musician (1939) |
| Grace Darling, Celebrity (1815) |
| Stefano Gabbana, Designer (1962) |
| Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant (1922) |
| Laura San Giacomo, Actress (1962) |
| Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer (1956) |
| Veronica Lake, Actress (1919) |
| William Ames, Philosopher (1633) |
| William Samuel Johnson, Politician (1819) |
| John LaFarge, Artist (1910) |
| Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher (1716) |