Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

The king dead is a living god.

The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.

The reason why God doesn't show his face is because he stands behind a wall that can be broken.

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.

Chicago is a pretty good town.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.

Don't worry about the chatter, do a good job, produce great work and do reporting that you're proud of.