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

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

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.

It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me.

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

Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug.

I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.