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Wright, Frank Lloyd. Quoted in Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture, written by Robert C. Twombly. Harper & Row, 1973, ch. 9.

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Before Midnight. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/Venture Forth/Detour Filmproduction, 2013.

I long ago come to the conclusions that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Damon Runyon

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Runyon, Alfred Damon. "A Nice Price." Money From Home. Frederick A. Stokes, 1935.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

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Kilmer, Joyce. "Trees." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1913, I. 11.

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Muir, John. Journal entry. 1869.

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Muir, John. "My First Summer in the Sierra." John Muir: Nature Writings. Library of America, 1997, ch. 6.

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Frost, Robert. "Haec Fabula Docet." Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1946, I. 18.

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Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. Constable Press, 1939.

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Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

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Arnold, Matthew. Quoted in Collections and Recollections, written by G. W. E. Russell. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898, ch. 14. Originally stated to Russell by Arnold c. 1890.

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Raleigh, Walter. The Historie of the VVorld / In Five Bookes. London: Ben Jonson, 1614, bk. 5, ch. 6.

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Cowper, William. "Retirement." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 1.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 1.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes. London, 1813, pt. 3.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Queen Mab." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 3.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl

The Witches

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Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, 1983.

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"Just Between Me and You and Kirk and Paul and Carla and Becky." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and Matthew Carlson, directed by Peter Baldwin, season 2, episode 5, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1989.

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Updike, John. "John Updike, The Art of Fiction No. 43." Interviewed by Charles Thomas Samuels. The Paris Review, Issue 45, Winter 1968.

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Kennedy, Robert F. Remarks on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4 Apr. 1968, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

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A Clockwork Orange. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Polaris Productions/Hawk Films, 1971.

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Peacham, Henry. The Compleat Gentleman. London: Francis Constable, 1622.