I'd love to have lunch with any of these people: Daniel Shore, Jerry Abramson, the Dali Llama, Tom Waits, Neil Young, Al Franken, Elizabeth Frazer, Peter Murphy, William Glasser, Jimmy Carter, B.B.King, Donna Tartt, Robert Smith, Michael Stipe, David Sedaris, Kurt Vonnegut, Mickey Hart, Bill Clinton, Morrissey, Siouxsie Sioux, King Abdullah II, Wallace Shawn, Terry Gross, Bono, Lisa Gerrard, Al Daviou, Ellen Degeneres, Jennifer Granholm, Bob Dylan, James Carville, James Earl Jones, Rick Oberheid, Diane Rehm, Miriam Makeba, Bill Gates, Patrick Stewart, Willem Defoe, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Rom Emmanuel, Gandalf, Newt Gingrich, Peter Buck, George Carlin, Rev Al Sharpton, David Crosby, Lou Reed, Bill Maher, Philip Glass, Billy Collins, Barry Sanders, Madelaine Albright, Garrison Keiller, Ringo Starr, Bill Moyers, Marylin Manson, Laurie Anderson, The Edge, Oprah, Peter Gabriel, Steve Burns, Wayne Coyne, Christopher Tolkien, Barack Obama, a leader of Hamas, or any of my friends listed below.