About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

I rejoice when I meet gifted young people... I feel the future is in good hands.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.’ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.

When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.