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

Culture is as crucial as Nature.

Oliver Sacks

He is man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment.

Oliver Sacks

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement

Oliver Sacks

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.

Oliver Sacks

Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards.

Oliver Sacks

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

Oliver Sacks

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

Oliver Sacks

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

Oliver Sacks

It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me

Oliver Sacks

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

Oliver Sacks

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

Oliver Sacks