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

"Alex believed in that God Chip in the brain, something created to process and trigger wonderment."

— Smith, Zadie (b. 1975)

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)

Date: 2002

"But of late a fog has descended on his mind."

— Coetzee, J. M. (b. 1940)

Date: 2002

"And anyway, whether mad or miserable, how can one write when tiredness is like a gloved hand gripping one's brain and squeezing?"

— Coetzee, J. M. (b. 1940)

Date: 2002

"For he has it in him, he knows, his imagination is of the same colour as Brodsky's."

— Coetzee, J. M. (b. 1940)

Date: 2002

"The threat of the toy by which he earns his living, the threat that makes it more than just a toy, is that it will burn either-or paths in the brains of its users and thus lock them irreversibly into its binary logic."

— Coetzee, J. M. (b. 1940)

Date: 2002

"Your mind works like a spider building an intricate web."

— Templeton, John, Sir (1912-2008)

Date: August 12/19, 2002

"In his mind's eye he can see himself coolly flipping the garlic and pepper T-bones on the front acreage of his new grill while carefully testing the citrus-tarragon trout filets that sizzle fragrantly in the rear."

— Brooks, David (b. 1961)

Date: 2002

"Of the friend watching him leave remembering / the story of her body / with his once and the stories of their children / made with other people and how his mind went on / pressing hers like a body."

— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)