What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. Sigmund Freud, letter to Ernest Jones (1933), as quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) by Robert Andrews, p. 779
Vashon Island had to be passed on each journey up and down the Sound. It was named for a friend of Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy, Captain James Vashon. (Meany, p. 326).