Date: 1719
"It is as impossible as needless, to set down the innumerable Crowd of Thoughts that whirl'd through that great Thorowfair of the Brain, the Memory, in this Night's Time."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 2000
"It's the medium-sized thoughts that jump ship in an emergency."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)