Date: April 23, 2013

"Maybe I’ve been in school too long; doctoral study has a way of turning your head into a never-ending seminar, and I’m now capable of having complicated, inconclusive thoughts about nearly any subject."

— Rothman, Joshua

Date: April 23, 2013

"Perhaps that's the rational conclusion, but, if so, it's beset on all sides by confounding little puzzles; they act like streams that divert and weaken the river of rational thought."

— Rothman, Joshua

Date: May 20, 2013

"As this book began to veer astray, I felt that Lindemann's mind was like a sleek yacht built for exhilarating grace and speed but commandeered by moldy tyrants for mundane use as a sluggish freighter."

— Paglia, Camille (b. 1947)

Date: May 29, 2013

"But by weaving a tale as sprawling and complex as it does, 'Arrested' also can't help but rewire viewers' minds so that reality, barbecues and all, seems slightly grander."

— Kornhaber, Spencer

Date: June 19, 2013

"Where they (it was held) re-made the world visually and emotionally in the smithies of their tortured souls (to paraphrase James Joyce), Warhol blithely swiped subject matter from mass media."

— Sartwell, Crispin (b. 1958)

Date: July 1, 2013

"Many lines of poetry are so long-embedded in my memory that I find them appearing when I speak or write. Sometimes I am quoting. Sometimes I am unconsciously drawing from the reservoir."

— Ebert, Roger (1942-2013)

Date: July 12, 2013

"The disheartening fact is that for every college professor who made Shakespeare or Lawrence come alive for the lucky few—the British scholar Frank Kermode kindled Shakespeare into an eternal flame in my head—there were countless others who made the reading of literary masterpieces seem like two ...

— Siegel, Lee (b. 1957)

Date: August 3, 2013

"The imagination is a double-edged sword."

— Luhrman, T. M. (b. 1959)

Date: Aug 29, 2013

"Human mental bandwidth is finite."

— Badger, Emily

Date: May 30, 2013

"And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go."

— Winfrey, Oprah (b. January 29, 1954)