I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

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.

Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life 'hyper-life' ... The paradox of an illness which can present as wellness - as a wonderful feeling of health and well-being, and only later reveal its malignant potentials - is one of the chimaeras, tricks and ironies of nature.

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

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

I cannot pretend i am not without fear.

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.