Date: 1940

"Well I really wouldn't care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik, because I know exactly what I'd find. Instead of a heart, a hand-bag. Instead of a soul, a suitcase. And instead of an intellect, a cigarette lighter... which doesn't work."

— Raphaelson, Samson (1894-1983)

Date: 1966

"In the jungles of kid-dom, the mind switches gears rapidly."

— Shepherd, Jean; Bob Clark, Leigh Brown

Date: 1966

"Deep in the recesses of my brain... a tiny red-hot little flame began to grow."

— Shepherd, Jean; Bob Clark, Leigh Brown

Date: 1966

"A fuse blew and I had gone out of my skull."

— Shepherd, Jean; Bob Clark, Leigh Brown

Date: 1983

"My brain is like oatmeal."

— Hughes, John (1950-2009)

Date: 1988

"For nearly fifty years, in the dark, moviegoers burn imagination to heat up reality."

— Godard, Jean-Luc (b. 1930)

Date: 1993

"I didn't need to speak, I could lay thoughts out in his mind like they were a sheet."

— Campion, Jane (b. 1954)

Date: 2007

"Yeah, mind-bottling. You know, when things are so crazy it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle?"

— Cox, Jeff, Craig Cox, John Altschuler, and Dave Krinsky