Quotes from authors passed in 2002
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Spike Milligan
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
John Gotti
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
June Jordan
And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there.
Aleksandr Lebed
Andre Derain 
Judd Apatow 
Melina Mercouri 
Joe Simon 
Dianne Wiest 
Louis B. Mayer 
Neal Stephenson 
Eugene Wigner