Oliver Sacks

Music is a language that transcends words.

I have always been driven by a sense of wonder and curiosity.

The brain is a dynamic and ever-changing landscape.

Every individual is a universe unto themselves.

Music can heal, it can inspire, it can transform.

I have tried to live my life with passion and purpose.

The brain is a complex and beautiful mystery.

The human experience is infinitely varied and endlessly fascinating.

Music is a window into the soul.

I have no regrets, only gratitude.

The most important thing is to live, to feel, to experience.

There will always be outsiders, for what is normality but the straitjacket of the majority?

I am a storyteller, for better or for worse.

Music is the effort we make to reproduce time in the spatial dimension of our minds.

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.

To be ourselves, we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories day by day.

The brain is wider than the sky.

A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free.

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

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.