Quote of the day
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
Patricia T. O'Conner

Born: February 19, 1949 (age 76)
Bio: Patricia T. O’Conner is the author of five books about the English language. A former editor at The New York Times Book Review, she appears monthly on WNYC as the "word maven" for The Leonard Lopate Show.