Happy birthday, Richard Brautigan! Here are some quotes from this superb writer’s writing: “I like to think (it has to…
Anton Chekhov on Life, Love, Death, Writing, Happiness, and More
Happy birthday, Anton Chekhov(!), great Russian playwright and short story writer, about whom George Saunders wrote: That’s one of my…
Colette on Writing, Passion, Solitude, Despair, and More
Happy birthday, Colette! Here are some quotes from this great writer: “Put down everything that comes into your head and…
Alice Neel on Art, Freedom, Chekhov, and More
Happy birthday, Alice Neel! Here are some quotes from and paintings by this extraordinary artist: “Art is two things: a…
Claes Oldenburg on Art and Life and Other “Possibilities”
Happy birthday, Claes Oldenburg! 90, today! Here are some of his marvelous sculptures highlights from his wonderful “Ode to Possibilities“:…
Virginia Woolf on Life, Death, and Writing, and More
Some wonderful quotes by Virginia Woolf’s on the occasion of her birthday.
Happy Birthday, Charlie Parker!
Happy birthday anniversary, Charlie Parker! Bird lives! Quotes from the marvelous virtuoso: “Music is your own experience, your own thoughts,…
Happy Birthday, Meshell Ndegeocello!
Happy birthday, Meshell Ndegeocello, American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and vocalist! 49, today! “We’re all just bags of bones and muscle…
Happy Birthday, Michael Jackson!
Happy birthday anniversary, Michael Jackson, American singer, songwriter, and dancer! “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare…
Happy Birthday, Diamanda Galás!
Happy birthday, Diamanda Galás! American avant-garde soprano, composer, pianist, organist, performance artist, and painter. 62, today! Quotes: “It seems stupid when…