Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not.

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

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

Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)