“I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.”
“The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watchin”
| Simon Baker, Actor (1969) |
| Quico Canseco, Politician (1949) |
| Bill Cartwright, Athlete (1957) |
| Henry Ford, Businessman (1863) |
| William H. Gass, Novelist (1924) |
| Harriet Harman, Politician (1950) |
| Osama Bin Laden, Criminal (1957) |
| Herbert Baxter Adams, Educator (1901) |
| Bao Dai, Statesman (1997) |
| Lynn Fontanne, Actress (1983) |
| Joyce Kilmer, Poet (1918) |