Date: 2003

"So next time you see the homey and his rims spin / Just know my mind is working just like them / (rims, that is)"

— Carter, Shawn Corey (b. 1969) [Jay-Z]

Date: 2004

"Shine on me baby, because it's raining in my heart."

— Smith, Elliott (1969-2003)

Date: 2004

"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."

— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)

Date: Summer, 2004

"Because of the way we live, the basement of the American mind fills up with the sexual use of other people."

— Greif, Mark (b. 1975)

Date: Summer, 2004

"Even on the subway and in the street, porn-i-color daydreams issue through our mental viewfinders."

— Greif, Mark (b. 1975)

Date: January 25, 2005

"I'm staring out into that vacuum again / From the back porch of my mind / The only thing that's alive, I'm all there is."

— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)

Date: January 25, 2005

"And each morning she wakes / With a dream to describe / Something lovely that bloomed / In her beautiful mind."

— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)

Date: 2005

"What suffocates the land / In the memory of a garbage can / Memory of a garbage can?"

— Bird, Andrew (b. July 11, 1973)

Date: 2005

"Memories, like mohair sweaters, / Stretched and pilled faux distressed letters."

— Bird, Andrew (b. July 11, 1973)

Date: 2006

"More and more in recent weeks, he had found himself approaching likewise the condition of an empty cylinder, ony intermittently occupied by intelligent thought."

— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)