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" If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being? "

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" If I'm about to forget my kid's birthday, I want the phone to scream at me until I do something about it. "

" I remember, for my birthday once, we all dressed up as Spice Girls. I was Scary. "

Hannah John-Kamen

" I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And we had grown close, and so it was, like, time for her birthday party and I said 'Oh, like, what time do I come for your party?' And she's like 'Oh, no, you can't come to my house 'cause my parents don't like black people.' "

" I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven. "

Annaleigh Ashford

" It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. "

" Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century - photos, videos, and birthday wishes. "

" Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do. "

" I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo. "

" I remember going to see 'Starlight Express' almost every birthday I had as a treat because I just loved it, and the idea that you could rollerskate in a sort of scary old theatre... It was sort of a novel concept. "

Harry Hadden-Paton

" I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind. "

" Motorcycle riding has been a passion of mine since my 20th birthday, and as a proud member of the American Motorcyclist Association and the Harley Owners Group, I can attest that responsible riding has many unique recreational benefits for millions of Americans. "

" I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy. "

Mark Billingham

" I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties. "

" If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will. "

" I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.' "

" I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over. "

Kristin Armstrong

" On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me! "

" When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls. "

" I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. "

" I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book. "

" They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats. "

" For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted. "

Kaui Hart Hemmings

" My 40th birthday I held in an old-age home. My 50th I had at Pravda before it opened in New York. My 60th I had at Pastis. For my 70th, I thought, 'I don't need to have a celebrity party this year. I'm going to go take my oldest, closest friends to Paris.' "

" I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday. "

" I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged. "

" If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. "

" Early on, when my wife and I were dating, we went to the grocery store, and I told her that sometimes I just buy birthday cakes, and I eat them. And she said: 'Really? I do, too.' "

" I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days. "

" Your children need your presence more than your presents. "

" I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York. "