My first car, a hybrid pioneered by my Uncle Ab, was a ’61 VW with a Model A Ford radiator hood welded to the Bug. An eye-catcher wherever it went, this car screamed, “I am unique on the road!”
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- Jo Nesbø (b. March 29): “It’s impossible to write anything without being political.”
- Pearl Bailey (b. March 29): “The worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self.”
- Maxim Gorky (b. March 28): “Science is the intellect of the world, art its soul.”
- Lady Gaga (b. March 28): “I don’t see myself in terms of artifice.”
- Quentin Tarantino (b. March 27): “I was excited about going to jail the first time.”
- Mariah Carey (b. March 27): “I’m not vain, I’m insecure.”
- Steven Tyler (b. March 26): “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.”
- Sarah Jessica Parker (b. March 25): “Let your freak flag fly.”
- Harry Houdini (b. March 24): “Don’t bite off red-hot iron unless you have a good set of teeth.”
- Jim Parsons (b. March 24): “Intelligence is sexy until it becomes irritating…”
- Jonathan Ames (b. March 23): “I don’t know what’s more difficult, life or the English language.”
- Joan Crawford (b. March 23): “I need sex for a clear complexion.”
- Gary Oldman (b. March 21): “Women are stronger than men.”
- J.S. Bach (b. March 21): “The aim of music should be the refreshment of the soul.”
- B.F. Skinner (b. March 20): “Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.”
- Spike Lee (b. March 20): “Parents kill more dreams than anybody…”
- Richard Condon (b. March 18): “Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.”
- Alice Hoffman (b. March 16): “Books may well be the only true magic.”
- Bernardo Bertolucci (b. March 16): “I left the ending ambiguous…”
- Rupert Murdoch (b. March 11): “Big will not beat small anymore…”
- Piet Mondrian (b. March 7th): “The artist is a channel.”
- Shaquille O’Neal (b. March 6th): “I want to be known as The Big Shakespeare.”
- Eva Mendes (b. March 5th): “I’m definitely responsible for the image I put out there…”
- Ralph Ellison (b. March 1st): “Writing requires plunging back into the shadow of the past…”
- Javier Bardem (b. March 1st): “I don’t see this heart-throb thing.”
- Elizabeth George (b. February 26): “I have to know the killer…”
- Chelsea Handler (b. February 25): “I didn’t become a comedian to work this hard.”
- Johnny Winter (b. February 23): “People need the blues.”
- Richard North Patterson (b. February 22): “There’s a wonderful freedom to being a novelist.”
- Anais Nin (b. February 21): “If you don’t cry out or sing, then don’t write.”
- Toni Morrison (b. February 18): “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self… is the test of their power.”
- Michael Jordan (b. February 17): “The game is my wife…”
- Ice-T (b. February 16): “Everybody wants to redeem themselves…”
- Galileo Galilei (b. Feb 15): “Nature is relentless and unchangeable.”
- Carl Bernstein (b. February 14): “Weird, stupid and coarse are becoming cultural norms…”
- Bertolt Brecht (b. February 10): “Unhappy the land in need of heroes.”
- Ashton Kutcher (b. February 7th): “Don’t settle for what life gives you…”
- Alice Cooper (b. February 4th): “Getting drunk & stoned is easy.”
- S.J. Perelman (b. February 1st): “All of us have only one personality.”
- Ronda Rousey (b. February 1st): “I’m scared all the time…”
- Norman Mailer (b. January 31): “Style is character.”
- Justin Timberlake (b. January 31): “I’m completely removed from any hype that comes my way.”
- Vanessa Redgrave (b. January 30): “Integrity is so perishable.”
- Oprah Winfrey (b. January 29): “Be thankful for what you have.”
- Jackson Pollock (b. January 28): “The strangeness will wear off…”
- Sarah McLachlan (b. January 28): “Love large, hurt large.”
- Lewis Carroll (b. January 27): “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. January 27): “One must not make oneself cheap…”
- Eddie Van Halen (b. January 26): “They hate you if you’re the same…”
- Ellen DeGeneres (b. January 26): “Find out who you are and be that person.”
- Virginia Woolf (b. January 25): “A woman must have a room of her own to write.”
- Alicia Keys (b. January 25): “Kick boxing is a lot of fun.”
- Edith Wharton (b. January 24): “Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed.”
- John Belushi (b. January 24): “Happiness is not a state to be in all the time.”
- Django Reinhardt (b. January 23): “Jazz attracted me with its instrumental precision…”
- Mariska Hargitay (b. January 23): “You’ve got to kick fear to the side…”
- Michael Hutchence (b. January 22): “To live in a self-made hell of publicity…”
- Sir Francis Bacon (b. January 22): “Imagination was given to man to compensate him…”
- Cat Power (b. January 21): “I got more guts than brains…”
- Jeff Koons (b. January 21): “I try to be a truthful artist…”
- David Lynch (b. January 20): “This whole world is wild at heart…”
- Dolly Parton (b. January 19): “I was the first woman to burn my bra…”
- Janis Joplin (b. January 19): “On stage, I make love to 25,000 people…”
- Cary Grant (b. January 18): “To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you’re impotent.”
- Al Capone (b. January 17): “You can achieve more with a kind word and a gun…”
- Kate Moss (b. January 16): “If I wasn’t a model I would have wanted to be a rock star…”
- Susan Sontag (b. January 16): “None of the rules for becoming more alive is valid…”
- Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart (b. January 15): “I wasn’t neglected enough as a child…”
- Martin Luther King (b. January 15): “Soft-minded men buy spiritual death on the installment plan…”
- January 14th birthday: Faye Dunaway
- Dave Grohl (b. January 14): “My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.”
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (b. January 13): “If I wrote a book, it would be about hair.”
- Howard Stern (b. January 12): “You’ve got to be a little vicious…”
- Jack London (b. January 12): “You can’t wait for inspiration…”
- Naomi Judd (b. January 11): “A dead end street is a good place to turn around.”
- Mary J. Blige (b. January 11): “You can look at my palm and see the storm coming.”
- George Foreman (b. January 10): “Boxing is like jazz…”
- Rod Stewart (b. January 10): “Instead of getting married again…”
- Jimmy Page (b. January 9th): “My vocation is orchestrating a guitar army.”
- Elvis Presley (b. January 8th): “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”
- A Small Glimpse into Bowie’s Legacy
- David Bowie (b. January 8th): “I need to be something more than human.”
- Isaac Asimov (b. January 2nd): “Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
- Cuba Gooding Jr. (b. Jan 02): “My mom says don’t open the door to the devil…”
- J. Edgar Hoover (b. Jan 1st): “We are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy…”
- Bo Diddley (b. December 30): “I opened the door for a lot of people…”
- Marianne Faithfull (b. December 29): “Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up…”
- My favorite Christmas toy
- Eddie Vedder (b. December 23): “The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”
- Ralph Fiennes (b. December 22): “As an actor, there’s a bit of you that wants to be looked at…”
- Andrew Carnegie (b. November 25): “I resolved to stop accumulating…”
- Shelby Foote (b. November 17): “Longevity conquers scandal every time.”
- Want to go back to my place and take some selfies?
- Commies ‘r’ us
- Her teeth were like pearls
- My cup runneth over…
- Back in the saddle again…
- I’ll be right with you as soon as I figure out where I am.
- If you like it then you ought to put a ring on it.
- Chinua Achebe (b. November 16): “My weapon is literature.”
- Bad girl, go to my room.
- When my guitar gently weeps, I give it a hug.
- Roland Barthes (b. November 12): “Language is a skin” & other obsessions
- Neil Young (b. November 12): “I have no other talent…”
- Demi Moore (b. November 11): “I don’t like to take my clothes off.”
- Neil Gaiman (b. November 10): “You get ideas from being bored” & other quotes on writing
- Richard Burton (b. November 10): “An actor is something less than a man…”
- Janet Fitch (b. November 9): “Kill the cliché” & other writing tips
- Anne Sexton (b. November 9): “The feeling after writing a poem is better than sex…”
- Kazuo Ishiguro (b. November 8): “Memory is central for me” & other quotes on writing
- Bonnie Raitt (b. November 8): “Religion is for people scared to go to hell…”
- James Jones (b. November 6): “I write to reach eternity” & other quotes on writing
- Yiyun Li (b. November 4): “One should be able to imagine being somebody else”
- Lee Smith (b. November 1): “We have to pay attention” & other quotes on writing
- Evelyn Waugh (b. October 28): “An artist must be a reactionary” & other quotes on writing
- Jonathan Stroud (b. October 27): “Try different kinds of writing” & other quotes
- Kim Kardashian (b. October 21): “I am so stereotyped…”
- Arthur Rimbaud (b. October 20): “Life is the farce we’re all forced to endure.”
- Marina Lewycka (b. October 12): “Comedy can expose the soul” & other quotes on writing
- Harold Pinter (b. October 10): “Language is a trampoline” & other quotes on writing
- Belva Plain (b. October 9): “Read the best there is and thereby learn.”
- John Lennon (b. October 9): “Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law…”
- Michael Korda (b. October 8): “Finish your first draft and then we’ll talk.”
- William Zinsser (b. October 7): “Writing is a craft not an art” & other quotes on writing
- Simon Cowell (b. October 7): “Ending the animal trade would leave more time to trap popstar wannabes.”
- Clive Barker (b. October 5th): “Horror is the wild-dog genre” & other quotes on writing
- Tommy Lee Jones (b. September 15): “Characters with no integrity are interesting…”
- Roald Dahl (b. September 13): “The life of a writer is absolute hell.”
- Jennifer Hudson (b. September 12): “Don’t block your blessings.”
- D.H. Lawrence (b. September 11): “Tragedy is like strong acid…”
- Colin Firth (b. September 10): “I have a kind of physical neutrality…”
- I like to sleep in Sunday mornings…
- Joe Perry (b. September 10): “I want to be the flame the tribe dances around.”
- Hugh Grant (b. September 9): “Women are frightening.”
- Pink (b. September 8th): “The aggressive side of me comes across…”
- Buddy Holly (b. September 7th): “Death is often referred to as a good career move.”
- It’s always better Manhattan style…
- Amazon book review: Parivartana Yoga
- There are three levels of readership…
- Hail, Atlantis!
- The butcher will see you now.
- And even spinach doesn’t help…
- Bob Newhart (b. September 5th): “Be a child for as long as you can.”
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