Date: April 29, 2024

"Merleau-Ponty is a deep influence; one can feel him tumbling around in the back seat of much of Butler’s thinking."

— Parul Sehgal (b.1981)

Date: May 22, 2024

"It’s not easy to stay away from drugs once your body has a substance abuse disorder. The pump is primed. The brain wiring has been rewired."

— Jenna Portnoy and Dan Keating

Date: July 26, 2024

"From the Very Stable Genius’s jumbled mind tumbled conspiratorial thoughts."

— Dana Milbank (b. April 27, 1968)

Date: February 28, 2025

"Because yeah, claiming that Russia did not invade Ukraine and that Zelenskyy is some kind of dictator sure sounds like Putin is attached to Trump’s brain like some kind of space slug, even if a few days later Trump denied he said it."

— Jones, Marcie

Date: June 27, 2025

"This was during that great phase of my life – anyone’s life – your twenties, when your brain has been formatted and disciplined by university, and you are free to read widely."

— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)

Date: June 27, 2025

"All these people, connected and linked in various ways through that pervasive word ‘ideology’, were sort of poured into the willing bucket of my head – Foucault, Adorno, Berger and Williams."

— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)

Date: June 27, 2025

"All that was embedded in my consciousness or, more deeply, it was stuff I’d been carrying around in my body, but the prolonged immersion in that period of my life means that I’ve never felt closer to my 14-year-old self."

— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)

Date: June 27, 2025

"I am good at tracking the whirring of perception and consciousness, which, of course, takes us back to what Montaigne said he was doing, chasing all these rabbits of thought around his head."

— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)

Date: June 27, 2025

"Quite often the thing that people respond to in my books is the train – the train wreck – of thought."

— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)

Date: June 27, 2025

"And Bernhard is all obsessive mental gurning."

— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)