I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

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

People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

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.

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

I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

New York is great for people watching and there's a bunch of amazing rooftops.

I am creative in my living space - the designer in me helps that out.

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.

You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.