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I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.
Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.
| Mario Cantone, Comedian (1959) |
| John Cassavetes, Actor (1929) |
| Rick Danko, Musician (1943) |
| Tom Daschle, Politician (1947) |
| Judi Dench, Actress (1934) |
| Mary Fallin, Politician (1954) |
| Sonia Gandhi, (1946) |
| Ernest Gellner, Philosopher (1925) |
| Hermione Gingold, Actress (1897) |
| Margaret Hamilton, Actress (1902) |
| Berenice Abbott, Photographer (1991) |
| Robert Baldwin, Politician (1858) |
| Toni Cade Bambara, Author (1995) |
| Mary Hansen, Musician (2002) |
| Dolores Ibarruri, Politician (1989) |
| Leon Jaworski, Public Servant (1982) |
| Mary Leakey, Scientist (1996) |


