We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then they may start to create hallucinatory sounds on their own. Although it is curious that they do not usually create noises or voices; they create music.

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

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

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.