301 Quotes by Oliver Sacks

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can

Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.

Music is part of being human.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity..