Date: 2001

"It is as substantial or insubstantial as the shadow of a house, in which some things will grow, some not."

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

Date: 2001

"Pebble, question, soul: no one can see all sides at once, but there is no side that cannot be seen."

— 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."

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

Date: 2001

"Same even with those cherished early memories: we call up a sketch, fill in the blanks, and store it again, changed."

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

Date: 2002

A landscape may poise like "A postcard in front of us / As though we'd settled it there, just so, / Halfway between the mind's eye and the mind, just halfway."

— Wright, Charles (b. 1935)

Date: 2002

"But of late a fog has descended on his mind."

— Coetzee, J. M. (b. 1940)

Date: 2002

"And anyway, whether mad or miserable, how can one write when tiredness is like a gloved hand gripping one's brain and squeezing?"

— Coetzee, J. M. (b. 1940)

Date: 2002

"For he has it in him, he knows, his imagination is of the same colour as Brodsky's."

— Coetzee, J. M. (b. 1940)

Date: 2002

"The threat of the toy by which he earns his living, the threat that makes it more than just a toy, is that it will burn either-or paths in the brains of its users and thus lock them irreversibly into its binary logic."

— Coetzee, J. M. (b. 1940)

Date: 2002

"Your mind works like a spider building an intricate web."

— Templeton, John, Sir (1912-2008)