Date: 1993

"O Rama, this mind is like an elephant which roams the forest known as the body."

— Valmiki (ca. 400 BC)

Date: 1993

"O Rama, this mind is like a crow which dwells in the nest of this body."

— Valmiki (ca. 400 BC)

Date: 1993

"O Rama, this mind is like a ghost. It is served by the female goblin known as craving; it rests in the forest of ignorance; it roams in countless bodies out of delusion."

— Valmiki (ca. 400 BC)

Date: 1993

"O Rama, this mind is like a venomous serpent which has killed countless beings; destroy this with the help of the eagle of our appropriate contemplative formula or instruction."

— Valmiki (ca. 400 BC)

Date: 1993

O Rama, this mind is like a monkey.

— Valmiki (ca. 400 BC)

Date: 1993

"I didn't need to speak, I could lay thoughts out in his mind like they were a sheet."

— Campion, Jane (b. 1954)

Date: 1994

"Pigsty for a brain, / Stop them from making faces at each other / In the mirror!"

— Simic, Charles (b. 1938)

Date: 1994

"Pigsty for a brain, / Stop them [the body and soul] from making faces at each other / In the mirror!"

— Simic, Charles (b. 1938)

Date: 1994

"Because you are traveling right along with him as he forms his sentences, making each word he says appear as a little clump of letters on your screen, you begin to feel as if you are doing the thinking yourself; you occupy some dark space in the interior of his mind as he goes about his job."

— Baker, Nicholson (b. 1957)

Date: May 30, 1994

"The Great Depression had entered our souls like fog."

— Justice, Donald (1925-2004)