Quotes from authors that died on Dec 20th
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
John Steinbeck
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan
I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.
Bobby Darin
Richie Sambora 
Bill Halter 
Robert A. Taft 
Richard Hell 
Tom Selleck 
Matt Damon 
Kiichi Miyazawa 
Roddy McDowall