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

I cannot pretend i am not without fear.

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

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.

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

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.