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

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

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

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

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

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 recategorized with every act of recollection.

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