Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.

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

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.

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

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.

there are other senses -­ secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -­ equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.