Books
Home page for Robert Stockton (links to various books by various authors)
The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery William Sheehan

Fairy tales, nursery rhymes, fables & parables
The Appointment in Samarra W. Somerset Maugham
The Three Sillies
To Market, To Market Mother Goose

Poetry
Ars Poetica Archibald MacLeish
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The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Ode to Spot Data
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Second Coming William Butler Yeats
Sonnet XLIII Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Quotes & Quotations
from King Richard II; Act II, scene 1 William Shakespeare
from Macbeth; Act V, scene 5 William Shakespeare
from The Merchant of Venice; Act III, scene 1 William Shakespeare
miscellaneous quotes
movie quotes

Religion/Philosophy
the Desiderata Max Ehrmann
essays from "Play" Moby
Meditation XVII John Donne (For Whom the Bell Tolls; No Man is an Island)
on Memes
The Tick

Stories, etc.
Evolving Conspiracy Roger MacBride Allen (my very favorite short story)
A Good Man Is Hard To Find Flannery O'Connor
The Immortal Bard Isaac Asimov
The Life of the Fruity King XerXes King XerXes
The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell