John Mulaney

• I'll Be Your Mirror by Velvet Underground

Stephen Colbert

• The Hound of Heaven
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by Tolkien:

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

• ON JOB'S DILEMMA: GOD'S INJUSTICE

I heard upon his dry dung-heap That man cry out who cannot sleep: "If God is God He is not good, If God is good He is not God; Take the even, take the odd, I would not sleep here if I could Except for the little green leaves in the wood And the wind on the water."

— Nickles, in J.B.: A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish