Date: January 26, 2019

"It's because he's literally fucking being investigated for his relationship with Russia and because he very much wants people to think he's not, and because that's honestly the best he can do because his brain is an old donut bobbing around in a toilet."

— Roth, David

Date: February 2, 2019

"Is this an O.K. time to let the kids play Fortnite until their brains melt into the back seat?"

— Pamela, Paul

Date: February 2, 2019

"My mind had no choice but to drift into an elaborate fantasy realm."

— Pamela, Paul

Date: February 2, 2019

"You let your mind wander and follow it where it goes."

— Pamela, Paul

Date: February 11, 2019

"You can't take your eyes off his eyes--blue and unblinking, as he confronts the world like a camera with the shutter left open, permitting the images to burn into his brain."

— Lane, Anthony (b. 1962)

Date: February 9, 2019

"It should be noted that this problem of split-screen consciousness is likely to get worse in the era of divided government, not better."

— Senior, Jennifer

Date: February 9, 2019

"Even if our government were a paradigm of functionality, we’d surely be fighting for custody of our brains."

— Senior, Jennifer

Date: February 9, 2019

"Many evolutionary biologists are fond of pointing out that the human body is not adapted to modern life, which often involves sitting for hours at a time and toiling in artificial light and consuming mounds of processed sugar ('There's no food in your food,' as the Joan Cusack character says in ...

— Senior, Jennifer

Date: February 9, 2019

"When the world's coming at you in great clouds of 280-character Frisbees, naturally it's tempting to vanish into the forest dark of your own mind."

— Senior, Jennifer

Date: February 9, 2019

"When I imagine his brain, I imagine a bug zapper in a drizzle. Bzzzzzzzzzzt. Fzzzz. Bzzz fzzz bzzzzzzzzzzt."

— Senior, Jennifer