Date: January 29, 2020

"I would argue that his [Donald Trump's] mind, while a lot of things, including a landfill for the rancid refuse of pure appetite, is not exactly intricate."

— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)

Date: May 28, 2023

"This is an acid bath for human cognition"

— Klein, Ezra (b. May 9, 1984)

Date: May 28, 2023

"It's like we have an internal whiteboard in our minds ... If I'm working on one task, I have all the info I need on that mental whiteboard. Then I switch to email. I have to mentally erase that whiteboard and write all the information I need to do email."

— Klein, Ezra (b. May 9, 1984)

Date: May 28, 2023

"And just like on a real whiteboard, there can be a residue in our minds."

— Klein, Ezra (b. May 9, 1984)

Date: January 1, 2024

"The breadth of Hitchens’s references makes you feel that, intellectually, you are having your tires rotated."

— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)

Date: July 26, 2024

"From the Very Stable Genius’s jumbled mind tumbled conspiratorial thoughts."

— Dana Milbank (b. April 27, 1968)

Date: June 27, 2025

"This was during that great phase of my life – anyone’s life – your twenties, when your brain has been formatted and disciplined by university, and you are free to read widely."

— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)

Date: June 27, 2025

"All these people, connected and linked in various ways through that pervasive word ‘ideology’, were sort of poured into the willing bucket of my head – Foucault, Adorno, Berger and Williams."

— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)

Date: June 27, 2025

"All that was embedded in my consciousness or, more deeply, it was stuff I’d been carrying around in my body, but the prolonged immersion in that period of my life means that I’ve never felt closer to my 14-year-old self."

— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)

Date: June 27, 2025

"I am good at tracking the whirring of perception and consciousness, which, of course, takes us back to what Montaigne said he was doing, chasing all these rabbits of thought around his head."

— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)