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

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.

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

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

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement