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

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

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

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

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

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.

People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.