Oliver Sacks

My vision is of a world where neurology and the arts come together to understand the human mind in all its complexity.

Deficits in the visual-spatial realm are not just a matter of seeing differently; they alter the very fabric of one's inner world.

I have been able to live a life that is full and rich, despite my own neurological quirks.

The past is not simply there in my memory, but everywhere, shaping and directing the present.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy, physiology, and psychology.

Laughter is a form of communication that transcends words.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it.

Neurology is the most wonderfully inexact of the exact sciences.

I often feel that music is the most beautiful and profound of all the arts.

The human brain is an endless frontier – far from being mapped out.

In sleep, we leave reality behind and enter a world of dreams where anything is possible.

My own life has been a series of explorations, from chemistry to neurology to writing.

Tourette's is not just a disorder; it's a different way of being in the world.

Books are like a mirror; they reflect the reader's soul.

The joy of science is in the discovery, not the destination.

I have always been drawn to the oddballs, the misfits, because they reveal the human condition most vividly.

Color blindness is not a lack, but a different palette of perception.

Writing is my way of making sense of the chaos of the mind.

In the face of death, one must affirm life.

Migraine is a complex of neurological events, a storm in the brain.