It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads..

... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. T….

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can.

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives..

Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to famili….

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means..

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain..

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience..

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes an….

Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique..

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to s….

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to s….

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold..

Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had b….

We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and r….

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure..

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular….

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me..

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication..

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination..

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life..