“Draw a crazy picture, 
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle through your comb. 
Do a loony-goony dance 
‘Cross the kitchen floor, 
Put something silly in the world 
That ain’t been there before.” 

We remember Shel Silverstein, who died on this day in 1999.

“Animals don’t behave like men,’ he said. ‘If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don’t sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.” -Watership Down

Happy Birthday, Richard Adams!

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” 

We remember Maurice Sendak, who passed away today at the age of 83.

“Every writer I know has trouble writing.” Happy Birthday, Joseph Heller!

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“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

Remembering Ralph Waldo Emerson, who passed away on this day in 1882.

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”

Happy Birthday, Vladimir Nabokov!

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” -Jane Eyre

Happy Birthday, Charlotte Brontë!