A weekly series that explores a featured theme by pairing classic quotations with urgent images. What recent news items inspired these textual/visual sets? Leave your guesses in the comments, and check back next Wednesday for the answers.

“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”

-Andy Warhol

“Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We’re all nerds, on one subject or another.”

-Jonathan Lethem

“The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.”

-Wilder Penfield

“The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.”

-Jose Saramago

“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”
-Nikos Kazantzakis

Images: New York Magazine, Slate, BBC.com, BBC News, CBS News