Date: April 15, 1971
"You've got a geranium in your cranium."
preview | full record— Lederer, Esther [Ann Landers] (1918-2002)
Date: 1984
"It is never entirely true that you don’t give a shit what others say about you, but you must throw it out of your mind."
preview | full record— Baldwin, James (1924-1987)
Date: 1999
"Human beings are somehow already situated in such a way that what they need in order to cope with things is distributed around them where they need it, not packed away like a trunk full of objects, or even carefully indexed in a filing cabinet."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: February 20, 2000
"I sometimes fancy that various archetypal situations circled tirelessly in Hitchcock's mind, like whales in a tank at the zoo."
preview | full record— Ebert, Roger (1942-2013)
Date: 2001
"The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time, and this is true from hour to hour as well as from era to era."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2001
"If I looked at this pitted and pocked wall microscopically enough the visual data would fill my brain entirely."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: August 3, 2009
"Then, when you wake up at 3 A.M. and you need big, sad, well-placed words to tumble slowly into the basin of your mind, and you don't want to wake up the person who's in bed with you, you can reach under the pillow and find Apple's smooth machine and click it on."
preview | full record— Baker, Nicholson (b. 1957)
Date: 2010
"The idea of sex with a woman, of 'having a lesbian lover,' was simply unthinkable, like living alone at the North Pole or deciding to become a lycanthrope. If the thought existed at all, it was a mote, a sweet nothing--a little 'feather on the breath of God,' barely sensed now and then, but most...
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: October 31, 2011
"And then there were the experiments, each one a snapshot into the dark box of the brain."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)