I'd like to meet:
"He smiled understandingly. . . much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistable prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Books:
Watership Down, A Home At The End of the World, Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth, The Tall Woman, and recently finished Devil in the White City, Also love most anything by Michael Cunningham, Milan Kundera, Robert Coles, Armistead Maupin, Felice Picano, and Peter Gomes.
Heroes:
Dorothy Day, Tillie Olsen, Marshall Ganz, Robert Coles, Peter Gomes, Jane Addams, Kyle Zimmer, Jerry and Susan Arnold.