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Santayana, George. The Genteel Tradition at Bay. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931, ch. 2.

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Service, Robert W. "The Quitter." Rhymes of a Rolling Stone. Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912.

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Sacks, Oliver. "My Own Life." The New York Times, 19 Feb. 2015.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village. London: W. Griffin, 1770, l. 51.

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Jung, Carl. Synchronizität Als Ein Prinzip Akausaler Zusammenhänge [Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle]. Princeton University Press, 1960.

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Collins, Wilkie. "The Woman in White." All the Year Round, 26 Nov. 1859 – 25 Aug. 1860.

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Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White, edited by Matthew Sweet. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Foer, Jonathan Safran. "The Hum Inside the Skull, Revisited," New York Times, 16 Jan. 2005, www.nytimes.com/2005//01/16/books/review/the-hum-inside-the-skull-revisited.html

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass-which is better than trying to fill them.

Emil Cioran

The Trouble With Being Born

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Cioran, Emil. De I’inconvenient d’etre ne [The Trouble with Being Born]. Arcade Publishing, 1973, ch. 1.

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Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Three Men in a Boat. London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, ch. 3.

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Jerome, Jerome Klapa. "Three Men in a Boat." Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, edited by Jeremy Lewis. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 3.

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Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. History of European Morals: From Augustus to Charlemagn. Vol. 1, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869, ch. 1.

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Hubbard, Elbert. A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard. The Roycrofters, 1911.

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Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Houghlin Mifflin, 2005.

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Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Salt-Water Ballads. London: Grant Richards, 1902, I. 5.

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Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Sea Fever: Selected Poems of John Masefield, edited by Philip W. Errington. Carcanet Press, 2005, I. 5.

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Forster, E.M. "What I Believe." Two Cheers for Democracy. Hogarth Press, 1951. Originally published in the Nation, 16 July 1938.

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Peirce, Charles Sanders. "Three Cotary Propositions of Pragmatism." 14 May 1903, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Peirce, Charles Sanders. "Lecture Seven: Three Cotary Propositions of Pragmatism." Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking: The 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism. State University of New York Press, 1997.

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Burroughs, John. "The Divine Soil." The Atlantic, Apr. 1908.

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Momaday, Navarre Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. University of New Mexico Press, 1969, introduction. Originally appeared in The Reporter, 26 Jan. 1967.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1847, prologue.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, prologue.

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Buckley, William F., Jr. "Our Mission Statement." National Review, 19 Nov. 1955.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Peter De Vries

The Mackerel Plaza

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De Vries, Peter. The Mackerel Plaza. Little, Brown and Company, 1958, ch. 1.