God, Ghandi, Einstein, Elvis, John Lennon, Woodie Guthrie, Benjamin Franklin, The Guy Who Invented the Twinkie, That dog training woman who smuggled that inmate out of jail in a kennel (just to ask her what the hell she was thinking), John Locke, Mary Shelly, C. S. Lewis, Frank Herbert, Fred Bear, Freud, William Shakespeare, Ayn Rand (but only for five minutes because I'm sure she would just drone on and on forever), Ray Bradbury (who I got to hear give a talk at the Leid center at KU), Terry Pratchet, T. S. Eliot, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Patrick O'Brian, Jack London, Emily Dickinson, Berke Breathed, Abraham Lincoln, and everybody else, 'cause I'm just friendly that way.