For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.

I know absolutely nothing about music.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.