I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

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

There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different aspects of music: to pitch, to frequency, to timbre, to tonal intervals, to consonance, to dissonance, to rhythm, to melodic contour, to harmony.

The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded ... unconscious, automatic.