“That’s all there is, man… If you don’t have someone to love you, you don’t have anything.”
Reference material: Eileen Daspin | LIFE Magazine: Manson | 2019 | p.13

“…in Manson, society appears to have found a mirror.”
Reference material: Richard Jerome | LIFE Magazine: Manson | 2019 | p.92

Jim Morrison visit to Spahn Ranch – Reference Material: 
A&E Biography documentary film: The Manson Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO8x2gmiF_E
https://www.biography.com/video/the-manson-women-full-episode-2073408381
Additional reference:
https://jake-weird.blogspot.com/2017/07/tarantinos-film-take-on-manson-family.html

The Beach Boys’ Never Learn Not to Love
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Learn_Not_to_Love

Reference to Neil Young and Charles Manson
LIFE Magazine: Manson | 2019 | p.94

“We’ll kill whatever pigs are in that house. Go in there and get them..”
Reference material: quote from Steve Dougherty article | LIFE Magazine: Manson | 2019 | p.28

Manson: “The only thing my mother taught me was that everything she said was a lie.”
Charles Manson 1995 A&E Biography “Journey into Evil Documentary”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDg1HcZ8dI8

Patricia Krenwinkel:  “He was a man who I think felt that society had totally dumped him. I think he felt a rage and a hatred for society.”
Diane Sawyer meets Manson, Krenwinkel and Van Houten – Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn2zULFwB_w

Reference to: Revelation 9 of the New Testament 
Diane Sawyer meets Manson, Krenwinkel and Van Houten – Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn2zULFwB_w

References to Manson and The Beatles’ White Album tracks “Helter Skelter”, “Piggies” & “Revolution #9”
1993 ABC News Turning Point: The Manson Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0i9pog-790

Revelation 9: the ninth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%209&version=NIV

References to Manson’s early life:
The Disturbing Origins of Charles Manson: True Crime Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9S6tGZfpk

Reference to Roman Polanski spilling wine on Didiion’s dress:
LIFE Magazine: Manson | 2019 | P.76

Didion chronicles reaction to Cielo Drive murders: “no one was surprised”
The White Album (1979) | Joan Didion
References:
https://la.curbed.com/maps/joan-didion-white-album-los-angeles-house
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Album_(book)
LIFE Magazine: Manson | 2019 | P.74

Sentimental Journeys (1991) | Joan Didion | article on Central Park Jogger | The New York Review 
Full article: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1991/01/17/new-york-sentimental-journeys/

Out of Bethlehem: The radicalization of Joan Didion | by Louis Menand | August 17, 2015
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/out-of-bethlehem

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1967) | Joan Didion | essay on Summer of Love in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didion/
Reference: p.80 of Manson LIFE article

Where I Was From (2003) | Joan Didion | collection of essays on the history and culture of California, including her own experiences; a composition of historical, journalistic and autobiographical material 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_I_Was_From

Reference to Didion’s psychiatric diagnosis
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/books/didion-calif.html

Excerpts from Joan Didion’s 1968 hospital records:
Joan Didion on psychiatric trends and diagnoses | by Maud Newton | July 13, 2011
https://maudnewton.com/2011/07/joan-didion-on-psychiatric-trends-and-diagnoses/

Reference to Didion’s diagnosis of multiple sclerosis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion

“Diagnosis never seems to lead to a cure… only an enforced debility…”
Joan Didion on psychiatric trends and diagnoses | Maud Newton | July 13, 2011
https://maudnewton.com/2011/07/joan-didion-on-psychiatric-trends-and-diagnoses/

Multiple sclerosis (MS): Reference material:
https://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS

Reference to Play It As It Lays:
Olivia Mason’s examination of Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays: The Dark Heart of the American Dream
https://earlybirdbooks.com/play-it-as-it-lays#

Didion’s character and its appearance in her work Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion: Staking Out California by Michiko Kakutani
The New York Times | June 10, 1979
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/books/didion-calif.html

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)
Netflix Documentary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion:_The_Center_Will_Not_Hold

Classical Ballet for military academy students in Imperial Russia
Classical Ballet in Russia
https://us.humankinetics.com/blogs/excerpt/classical-ballet-in-russia

Jean-Baptiste Landé: ballet master at the Russian Military Academy, Russian Ballet School and dance instructor of Catherine the Great
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Land%C3%A9

Military academy references to ballet:
History of Dance by Gayle Kassing
https://books.google.com/books?id=-vF6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=Catherine+the+Great+of+Russia+classical+ballet+for+military&source=bl&ots=IwLEUKdcgM&sig=ACfU3U25Xewzh8kPt2mnS5NpC7847aXccA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDhNCMovDzAhV9HDQIHfIUDJsQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=military&f=false

Ballet education at Orphanage in Moscow, Russia under Catherine the Great and her advisor, educator Ivan Betskoy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Orphanage

“As above, so below”: The Principle of Correspondence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_above,_so_below