“Don’t you know everything? God smiled. “No, I outgrew that trick long ago. You can’t imagine how boring it was.””

Variant: As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you
Source: Every Soul a Star

"Transience Is Now Permanence & the Fate of the Middle Classes (Doomed)" http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_3.html#coupland, in The Edge Annual Question — 2010: How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_index.html, January 2010

Song lyrics, American Pie (1971), American Pie
Context: A long long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while.
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The Day the Music Died.

Source: Underdog

Doctor Pickering, p. 133
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Trafalgar (2000)

Aleph (2011)

Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 27 (p. 438).

Tears and Saints (1937)