Date: July 11, 2014

"Did he feel his mind and morals were mildewed by the miasma of Nero's, and Rome's, mania?"

— Hughes, Bettany (b. 1967)

Date: July 5, 2014

"And so, while in the past, we turned to Freud's mystic writing pad to think of memory as a palimpsest, burying material under layers of inscription, now we see a memory as a live wire sitting in the psyche waiting for a spark."

— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)

Date: July 17, 2014

"The thoughts don't tend to inspire action, only fear. It's like having a homegrown terrorist in the brain."

— Corbett, Sarah

Date: July 17, 2014

"But her mind, as she puts it, had become like 'an untethered jackhammer.'"

— Corbett, Sarah

Date: July 17, 2014

"After one of her two dogs, a pug named Blossom, took a tumble off her back porch and died -- something for which Bamford blames herself, having removed a ramp connecting the porch to the yard -- her mood went permanently black. "I could not find any comfort at all -- just nothing, and for months...

— Corbett, Sarah

Date: March 7, 2014

A traffic jam "is more than the sum of all its cars. Something similar goes for the self."

— Mooney, Chris

Date: March 7, 2014

"For Kaku, the brain is a computer made of meat, and understanding the mind is just a really, really hard engineering problem."

— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)

Date: March 7, 2014

"Minds made of meat (ours) are just one of Kaku’s concerns."

— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)

Date: March 7, 2014

"If we treat minds like meat-computers, we may end up in a world where that’s the only aspect of their nature we perceive or value."

— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)

Date: February 28, 2014

"Imagine you could pry off the back of Wes Anderson’s head as if it were a vintage TV set and rummage around inside."

— Itzkoff, Dave (b. 1976)