Publisher's Synopsis
"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.""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.""My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.""Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.""We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.""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."
