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“When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.”
“For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.”
| Josephine Baker, Dancer (1906) |
| Chuck Barris, Producer (1929) |
| Roscoe Bartlett, Politician (1926) |
| Jefferson Davis, Leader (1808) |
| Allen Ginsberg, Poet (1926) |
| Hale Irwin, Athlete (1945) |
| Kelly Jones, Musician (1974) |
| Kerry King, Musician (1964) |
| Bert Lance, Politician (1931) |
| William Harvey, Scientist (1657) |
| Pope John XXIII, Clergyman (1963) |
| Franz Kafka, Novelist (1924) |
| Raj Kapoor, Actor (1988) |
| Ayatollah Khomeini, Statesman (1989) |