Date: May 18, 2017

"Ooh, you're taking up a fraction of my mind."

— Selena Gomez (b. 1992)

Date: January 12, 2018

"He also shared some thoughts about James Comey--if, by thoughts, you mean the products of the dying sparks of sputtering synapses."

— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)

Date: 2018

"As that word left a greasy trail through his skull, he saw her."

— Hermione Hoby

Date: 2018

"His mind was a synthetic sky: blue, blank, cloudless."

— Hermione Hoby

Date: April 28, 2018

"Some magazine stories are fishhooks; they work their way into your mind and don't come out."

— Douthat, Ross (b. November 28, 1979)

Date: May 4, 2018

"Recognizing the envy when my sixtysomething friend boasted that he had recently completed a marathon, I was able to restrain myself from giving rope to the indignant thought, 'Instead of running miles every day, why don't you spend some time tutoring disadvantaged kids!'"

— Marino, Gordon

Date: May 12, 2018

"Our brains are so scrambled that it's starting to make sense that none of it makes sense."

— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)

Date: July 9 & 16, 2018

"I was really determined: like this is a poison in my mind--lust--and seeing people as 'What could that person be to me?'"

— Moshfegh, Ottessa (b. May 20, 1981)

Date: 2018

"This isn't my way to cope / Washing my mind out with soap."

— Karly-Marina Loaiza [Kali Uchis] (b. July 17, 1994)

Date: 2018

"I'm doing fine / Trying to derail my one track mind."

— Dacus, Lucy (b. May 2, 1995)