Buddhists generally agree that the thoughts held by a person at the moment of death are of essential significance.
And, to my relief, I already knew that the thoughts inside my head are OK, because I'd taken enough acid.
It was with Day, though, that the thoughts of Spieth, Woods and plenty of others were directed.
What mattered to authorities in Ohio -- the only thing that mattered -- was that the thoughts were vile.
It's that kind of book, surreally logical in the way that the thoughts of a committed hard drinker can often be.
It was after falling off a horse in the late 1930s that the thoughts of David Heneker, who has died aged 94, turned from soldiering to songwriting.
Yes they had, they told him, and they'd asked their co-workers a question: "Do you think that the thoughts that you have in your head could influence how that rat moves through space?" No, everybody had said.
The voices in their heads, he suspected, were no different from anyone else's internal monologues; their brains just processed them a little out of sequence, so that the thoughts seemed to belong to someone else.
If you'd asked 30 years ago, who would have predicted that the thoughts and feelings of strangers would be so engrossing that people would stay up late arguing with them, or collate the funniest weekly.
Here, I can hope to escape such long-term embarrassment by claiming that the thoughts I am about to set down are transitory, impressionistic and I may contradict them next week.
Clair-De-Lune taught me to speak, it taught me that the thoughts in my head could be illustrated just as vividly when I spoke and told them to people as they appeared on paper.
