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O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Father John McCown. 9 May 1956.

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Maugham, William Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Greenwood Press, 1970.

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White, E. B. "The Meaning of Democracy." The New Yorker, 3 July 1943.

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Ginsberg, Allen. "A Supermarket in California." Howl and Other Poems. City Lights Books, 1956.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman: Maxims for Revolutionists." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, preface. Originally published by Archibald and Constable & Co., Ltd, 1903.

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Berlin, Isaiah. "Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century." Foreign Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 3, Apr. 1950.

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Lee-Hamilton, Eugene. "Roman Baths." Sonnets of the Wingless Hours. Chicago and Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1894.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Talking about the novel Bleak House. c. 1940, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA. Lecture.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. "Charles Dickens: Bleak House." Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers. Mariner Books, 2002.

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Du Maurier, Daphne. The Rebecca Notebook: and Other Memories. Gollancz, 1981.

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Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire." Athenæum, 12 Aug. 1837.

I have seen the future; and it works.

Lincoln Steffens

Following a visit to the Soviet Union in 1919.

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Steffens, Lincoln. The Letters of Lincoln Steffens. Vol. 1, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. Originally a letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Lawrence Durrell

Mountolive

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Durrell, Lawrence. Mountolive. Faber and Faber, 1958.

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O. Henry. "Gifts of the Magi." The Four Million: A Collection of Short Stories. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906. Originally published in The New York Sunday World, 10 Dec. 1905.

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Wells, H. G. Love and Mr. Lewisham. Harper & Brothers, 1900, ch. 23.

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Wells, H. G. Love and Mr. Lewisham, edited by Simon James. Penguin Classics, 2005, ch. 23.

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McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. McGraw-Hill, 1964, ch. 1.

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Chesterton, G.K. "The House of Christmas." Poems. John Lane Company, 1916.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "The Method of Zadig." 1880, Working Men's College, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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Johnson, Samuel. "Milton." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

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Johnson, Samuel. "Milton." The Lives of the Poets: A Selection, edited by Roger Lonsdale. Oxford University Press, 2009.