I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

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

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.

If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’.