“Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.”
“The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.”
| Steve Allen, Entertainer (1921) |
| Charles Babbage, Mathematician (1792) |
| Evan Bayh, Politician (1955) |
| Alejo Carpentier, Novelist (1904) |
| Elizabeth David, Writer (1913) |
| Gray Davis, Politician (1942) |
| Gnassingbe Eyadema, Statesman (1937) |
| Carlton Fisk, Athlete (1947) |
| Kit Harington, Actor (1986) |
| Joyce Jillson, Celebrity (1946) |
| Melvil Dewey, Inventor (1931) |
| Gerald R. Ford, President (2006) |
| Doug Harvey, Athlete (1989) |
| Elsa Lanchester, Actress (1986) |
| Kenneth Scott Latourette, Historian (1968) |