Maurice Sendak (b. June 10): “Childhood is a tricky business.”

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• Jack Higgins (b. July 27): “You’ve got to be obsessive, spend enormous effort and still get nowhere.”
• Mick Jagger (b. July 26): “It’s all right letting yourself go…”
• Matt LeBlanc (b. July 25): “I’m much more low-key…”
• Alexandre Dumas (b. July 24): “Work may be finished, education never.”
• Amelia Earhart (b. July 24): “The most difficult thing is the decision to act…”
• Raymond Chandler (b. July 23): “The most durable thing in writing is style…”
• Tom Robbins (b. July 22): “The most important novels are like coyotes…”
• Don Henley (b. July 22): “A man with a briefcase can steal millions…”
• Robin Williams (b. July 21): “You’re only given a little spark of madness…”
• Ernest Hemingway (b. July 21): “We are all apprentices…”
• Cormac McCarthy (b. July 20): “I’m not interested in writing short stories.”
• Brian May (b. July 19): “The guitar has a kind of grit…”
• Hunter S. Thompson (b. July 18): “America – 200 million used car salesmen with money to buy guns…”
• Angela Merkel (b. July 17): “The question is not whether we are able to change…”
• Stewart Copeland (b. July 16): “The music market is in the hands of fascists.”
• Arianna Huffington (b. July 15): “Most people no longer believe in an afterlife.”
• Ingmar Bergman (b. July 14): “Film goes directly to our feelings, down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
• Gustav Klimt (b. July 14): “All art is erotic.”
• Harrison Ford (b. July 13): “I rarely play a real person…”
• Buckminster Fuller (b. July 12): “Everyone is born a genius.”
• Lil Kim (b. July 11): “I haven’t had sex in eight months.”
• Sofia Vergara (b. July 10): “I’m fearless, I don’t complain.”
• Nikola Tesla (b. July 10): “The spread of civilization is like a fire…”
• Jack White (b. July 9): “I don’t like to take the easy way out.”
• Beck (b. July 8): “I don’t have enough hair to be a genius.”
• Robert Heinlein (b. July 7th): “Women and cats do as they please.”
• Dalai Lama (b. July 6th): “I don’t judge the universe.”
• When all the planets align…
• Loves to drink, loves to dance…
• Jean Cocteau (b. July 5th): “When I write, I disturb.”
• Life is unbearable…
• Having a great vacation on Neptune…
• Ann Landers (b. July 4): “One out of four people is mentally unbalanced.”
• With my new binoculars…
• She was a sloppy kisser…
• Dirty deeds done dirt cheap…
• Gone fishing…
• Franz Kafka (b. July 3): “Writing is utter solitude…”
• “Memories don’t always soften with time…”
• Hermann Hesse (b. July 2nd): “When dealing with the insane, pretend to be sane.”
• Happy Canada Day!
• My coffin or yours…?
• They want to make me go to rehab…
• Princess Diana (b. July 1): “They say it’s better to be poor and happy…”
• Everything goes better with tequila!
• Michael Phelps (b. June 30): “I think goals should never be easy.”
• Learn to love Saturn…
• She was so beautiful…
• Vincent D’Onofrio (b. June 30): “The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.”
• People said our ménage à trois would never work…
• It’s the end of the world as we know it…
• They were beautiful women but…
• Loves to sing and dance…
• Jumpin’ Jack Flash, it’s a gas…
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (b. June 29): “Perfection is attained when there’s no longer anything to take away.”
• Gilda Radner (b. June 28): “Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.”
• They’d raised him from a cub…
• My heavy throbber’s itchin’…
• Do these flames make me look hot?
• Helen Keller (b. June 27): “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
• Vera Wang (b. June 27): “Don’t be afraid to take time to learn.”
• Chris Isaak (b. June 26): “The more hurtin’ the music was, the better it made me feel.”
• George Orwell (b. June 25): “Big Brother is watching you.”
• Duffy (b. June 23): “I think music is the only thing that I’ll ever really have.”
• Dan Brown (b. June 22): “My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences…”
• Jean-Paul Sartre (b. June 21): “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
• Nicole Kidman (b. June 20): “You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.”
• Paul McCartney (b. June 18): “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
• M.C. Escher (b. June 17): “I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.”
• Waylon Jennings (b. June 15): “Honesty is something you can’t wear out.”
• Jerzy Kosinski (b. June 14): “An umbrella interferes with the sky…”
• W.B. Yeats (b. June 13): “Don’t wait till the iron is hot…”
• Hugh Laurie (b. June 11): “You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.”
• Anne Frank (b. June 12): “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
• Saul Bellow (b. June 10): “A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.”
• Maurice Sendak (b. June 10): “Childhood is a tricky business.”
• Johnny Depp (b. June 9th): “I don’t pretend to be Captain Weird.”
• Joan Rivers (b. June 8th): “I don’t bend over.”
• Prince (b. June 7th): “Money won’t buy happiness, but it’ll pay for the search.”
• Sandra Bernhard (b. June 6th): “When you’re constantly looking for things from other people, you’re not looking within yourself.”
• Mark Wahlberg (b. June 5th): “I start my day out by saying my prayers.”
• Dr. Ruth (b. June 4th): “Talking about sex has helped my skiing.”
• Allen Ginsberg (b. June 3rd): “Whoever controls media images, controls culture.”
• What to wear on a first date
• Charlie Watts (b. June 2nd): “When people talk about the 60s I never think that was me there.”
• Marilyn Monroe (b. June 1st): “Dreaming about being an actress is more exciting then being one.”
• Clint Eastwood (b. May 31): “I tried being reasonable; I didn’t like it.”
• Cee Lo Green (b. May 30): “Loving something you’ve lost is all the incentive you need to love again.”
• Melissa Etheridge (b. May 29) “I’m so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.”
• Ian Fleming (b. May 28) “You only live twice.”
• Dashiell Hammett (b. May 27) “I’ve been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.”
• Miles Davis (b. May 26) “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”
• Mike Myers (b. May 25) “At any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.”
• Michael Chabon (b. May 24): “To become a successful novelist, you need talent, luck and discipline…”
• Bob Dylan (b. May 24) “I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.”
• Queen Victoria (b. May 24): “Intimacy with artists is dangerous…”
• Jewel (b. May 23) “Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.”
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (b. May 22): “Life itself is always far more daring than the imagination.”
• Naomi Campbell (b. May 22): “Why do I have to wear underwear?”
• The persistence of cats
• Fats Waller (b. May 21): “If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it.”
• Timothy Olyphant (b. May 20): “I’m attracted to roles that are unpredictable…”
• Cher (b. May 20): “The longer I look good, the better gay men feel.”
• Who’s up for coffee…?
• Socket it to me…
• A man for all reasons…
• Malcolm X (b. May 19): “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
• Bertrand Russell (b. May 18): “To fear love is to fear life…”
• Tina Fey (b. May 18): “A rectal thermometer’s the best way to take a baby’s temperature…”
• They’re doing it like people…
• The Devil made me play it…
• Up in smoke… again.
• Enya (b. May 17): “Writing every song is a little journey.”
• Shaken or stirred?
• Megan Fox (b. May 16): “I’m so mentally ill, I could do something really interesting.”
• Jasper Johns (b. May 15): “To be an artist you have to give up everything.”
• David Byrne (b. May 14): “An artist’s creativity comes from torment.”
• Do these pineapples make me look juicy?
• Is it ennui or am I just hungry?
• Stevie Wonder (b. May 13): “Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.”
• George Carlin (b. May 12): “Language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
• Salvador Dali (b. May 11): “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
• Bono (b. May 10): “It’s stasis that kills you in the end…”
• Billy Joel (b. May 9th): “I am merely competent…”
• Harry Truman (b. May 8): “A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.”
• Eva Peron (b. May 7th): “One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism.”
• George Clooney (b. May 6th): “I’m really white trash.”
• Orson Welles (b. May 6th): “I started at the top and worked my way down.”
• Tammy Wynette (b. May 5th): “It’s hard giving all your love to just one man.”
• Audrey Hepburn (b. May 4th): “I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
• James Brown (b. May 3rd): “The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.”
• Great Expectorations, by Dr. Charles Dickens (humor)
• David Beckham (b. May 2nd): “I always wanted to be a hairdresser.”
• Joseph Heller (b. May 1st): “A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime.”
• Annie Dillard (b. April 30): “Many writers do little but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.”
• Willie Nelson (b. April 30): “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
• Jerry Seinfeld (b. April 29): “Bookstores are the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
• Ian Rankin (b. April 28): “Most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up.”
• Jay Leno (b. April 28): “God owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.”
• Mary Wollstonecraft (b. April 27): “It is vain to expect virtue from women until they are independent of men.”
• Coretta Scott King (b. April 27): “Women must become the soul of the nation.”
• Anita Loos (b. April 26): “I love high style in low company.”
• Carol Burnett (b. April 26): “Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.”
• Al Pacino (b. April 25): “I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.”
• Sue Grafton (b. April 24): “Ideas are easy. It’s their execution that separates the sheep from the goats.”
• Barbra Streisand (b. April 24): “I’m simple, complex, lazy and driven.”
• William Shakespeare (b. April 23): “A fool thinks he’s wise, but a wise man knows he’s a fool.”
• Vladimir Nabokov (b. April 22): “I think like a genius, speak like a child.”
• Jack Nicholson (b. April 22): “I only take Viagra when I’m with more than one woman.”
• Alistair MacLean (b. April 21): “I’m not a born writer, and I don’t enjoy writing.”