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Bradbury, Ray. "Usher II." The Martian Chronicles. Doubleday, 1950.

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Hubbard, Elbert. "Thomas Arnold." Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers. The Roycrofters, 1908.

Wit is the only wall
Between us and the dark.

Mark Van Doren

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Doren, Mark Van. "Wit." Collected Poems 1922–1938. Henry Holt & Company, 1939, st. 1.

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Carter, Jimmy. Remarks at the 100th Anniversary Luncheon of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. 100th Anniversary Luncheon of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. 4 May 1978, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Brennan, William J., Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Roth v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 354, 24 June 1957, pp. 476-514. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/354/476/.

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Parker, Dorothy. "Unfortunate Coincidence." Enough Rope. Boni & Liveright, 1926.

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. Pious and Secular America. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

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Hand, Learned. "The Spirit of Liberty." I Am An American Day. 21 May 1944, Central Park, New York City, NY, USA.

It was great fun,
But it was just one of those things.

Cole Porter

Just One of Those Things

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Porter, Cole. "Just One of Those Things." Jubilee. Performed by June Knight and Charles Walters. 1935, Shubert Theatre, Boston, MA, USA.

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Truman, Harry S. Memo to himself. c. 1954.

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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Knopf, 1989, ch. 3.

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Buckley, William F., Jr. Quoted in "William F. Buckley, Jr.: Portrait of a Complainer." Interviewed by Dan Wakefield. Esquire Magazine, Jan. 1961.

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Alice Rossi

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Rossi, Alice S. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir. Columbia University Press, 1973, pt. 2.

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Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. Random House, 1980.

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Stevens, Wallace. "Two or Three Ideas." 28 Apr. 1951, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA. Speech.

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Catt, Carrie Chapman. "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" Sixth Convention of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. 13 June 1911, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Didion, Joan. Run, River. Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1963.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 3. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

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The Doors. "When the Music's Over." Strange Days. Elektra Records, 1967.

For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: pay attention to what you pay attention to.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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Rosenthal, Amy Krouse [@missamykr]. "for anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. that's pretty much all the info u need." Twitter, 15 Mar. 2013, 7:02 a.m., twitter.com/missamykr/status/312564535242395648