Date: 2007

"It would keep, and my brain filed it away for later."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: 2007

"I have a brain full of remembered names but the road is often blocked with rubble."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: 2007

"[M]y brain ... did most of what I wanted it to do, but it had sand traps that I learned to avoid."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: 2007

"I knew I could no longer rely on the 'sticking plaster' of memory"

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: 2007

"And when and idea for additional information to throw into a discussion came into my head, it often evaporated when I was on the point of saying it."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: 2007

"But at the back door of my mind I ruminated on the New York visit, recalling the details of Dr. Sack's office, his manner and kindness."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: 2007

"One's collection comes to symbolize the contents of one's mind."

— Updike, John (1932-2009)

Date: 2007

"Books externalize our brains, and turn our homes into thinking bodies."

— Updike, John (1932-2009)

Date: 2007

"If Belinda's mind is like a whirligig of fashion or a camera obscura, where moving images are cast upon a blank surface umediated by a reflective or critical presence, then Pope supplies the ekphrasis suitable for such machinery."

— Lamb, Jonathan (b. 1945)

Date: 2007

"Cognitive scientists sometimes make the analogy that the brain is like a computer’s CPU, or hardware, while the mind is like the programs or software running on the CPU."

— Daniel J. Levitin (1957 - )