Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

Music is part of being human.

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

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