Date: May 19, 2014

"Like a text recalled from a computer's hard drive, each memory was subject to editing."

— Specter, Michael (b. 1955)

Date: May 19, 2014

"I asked if she thought scientists would ever really be able to write the pain out of a patient's mind."

— Specter, Michael (b. 1955)

Date: May 23, 2014

"What he had demonstrated was that the nervous system was like a computer terminal through which you could deliver commands to stop a problem, like acute inflammation, before it starts, or repair a body after it gets sick."

— Behar, Michael

Date: June 3, 2014

"It was the first time the idea had skulked out of the darkest, most anxious corners of my mind."

— Brooks, Kim

Date: July 16, 2014

"During the six years I begged my husband to get me pregnant, I kept certain images locked away in a mental hope chest."

— Rinaldi, Robin

Date: July 21, 2014

"Perhaps because Harry's life, on the page and, even more luridly, onscreen, was measured out in highlights, as the plot demanded, whereas Mason is revealed in a string of lowlights, or in those episodes which seem dim and dull at the time, and only later shine in memory's cave."

— Lane, Anthony (b. 1962)

Date: September 1, 2014

"Reading for self-recognition is the default factory setting in most people's minds."

— Heller, Nathan

Date: September 1, 2014

"Will the lesson be washed from their minds?"

— Heller, Nathan

Date: 2014

"DeYoung rummaged through his mental attic to figure out why."

— Blake, John

Date: September 19, 2014

"But concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it."

— Blow, Charles (b. 1970)