Quotes from authors that died on Oct 17th
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
S. J. Perelman
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
Joey Bishop
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney
Courteney Cox 
Edward II 
Alec Guinness 
Charles Godfrey Leland 
Andrew Wiles 
Woody Herman 
Simon Le Bon 
Uma Thurman