Date: 2001

"The spirals around the galactic core, the coin of hair over the drain, the mind looking down into itself--each formed by a hole it just barely avoids falling into."

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

Date: 2001

"The mind is like those floating islands of vegetation whose roots grasp not the earth but each other."

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

Date: 2001

"How romantic to think the mind a machine reliable enough to transform the same causes over and over again into the same effects. When even toasters fail!"

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

Date: 2001

"The mind notices it exists when it gets in its own way, as two strands have to get in each others' way to make a knot."

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

Date: 2001

"The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time, and this is true from hour to hour as well as from era to era."

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

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)