Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality - Oliver Sacks
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. - Oliver Sacks
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. - Oliver Sacks
I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobiographical memory. - Oliver Sacks