Date: 2007

"'Happily for us both, the eye of the mind may visit Miss Fermor in her nightgown at any hour,' he said."

— Gee, Sophie

Date: 2007

"His mind's eye was entirely absorbed by recalling Arabella's form and figure; the tip of her tongue touching upon her teeth as she spoke; the hair disordered about her face: innocent as a child's, yet knowingly, artfully caught up."

— Gee, Sophie

Date: 2007

"The renowned Italian castrato Nicolini was presently making a sedate crossing of the stage in a pasteboard boat, singing of violent tempests in both heart and mind."

— Gee, Sophie

Date: 2007

"Every sight is gone in an instant, and I have only my mind's eye in which to keep a mean copy of the glorious original."

— Gee, Sophie

Date: 2007

"And at the same time, a censor somewhere in my brain was simplifying things for me, helping me to cope with the necessary."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: 2007

"It would keep, and my brain filed it away for later."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: 2007

"I have a brain full of remembered names but the road is often blocked with rubble."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: 2007

"[M]y brain ... did most of what I wanted it to do, but it had sand traps that I learned to avoid."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: 2007

"I knew I could no longer rely on the 'sticking plaster' of memory"

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)

Date: 2007

"And when and idea for additional information to throw into a discussion came into my head, it often evaporated when I was on the point of saying it."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)