Quotes by : Oliver Sacks

What an odd thing it is to see an entire species -- billions of people -- playing with, listening to....

Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to....

I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual but on what is meant by living....

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

...read 1984 when it came out in 1949, and found its account of the ‘memory hole’ peculiarly evocative....

For 'wellness', naturally is no cause of complaint--people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the....

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow....

There was an irony and a paradox here: Franco thought of Pontito constantly, saw it in fantasy, depicted....

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost....

A union of literary and scientific cultures – there was not the dissociation of sensibility that....