“ I do not know how much a propensity to addiction is hardwired or how much it depends on circumstances or state of mind. All I know is that I was hooked after that night with an amphetamine-soaked join… Oliver Sacks
“ I am sorry I have wasted (and still waste) so much time; I am sorry to be as agonizingly shy at eighty as I was at twenty; I am sorry that I speak no languages but my mother tongue and that I have not… 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 autob… 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 autobi… Oliver Sacks
“ For me, this was an example of how unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the c… Oliver Sacks
“ —¿Es usted desgraciado? —continué. —No puedo decir que lo sea. —¿Disfruta de la vida? —No puedo decir que disfrute… Vacilé, con miedo a estar yendo demasiado lejos, a estar desnudando a un hombre hast… Oliver Sacks
“ يدعي الطب دوما أن التجربة هي الأختبار لعملياته وبالتالي كان أفلاطون محقا عندما قال إنه من أجل أن يصبح المرء طبيبا حقيقيا لابد أن يكون قد اختبر جميع الأمراض التي يأمل أن يعالجها وجميع الحوادث والحالات… Oliver Sacks
“ Where was I? What had been done? I replied that I was in the recovery room and that he had detached the lateral rectus muscle of the right eye and attached the plaque containing radioiodine (I-125, to… Oliver Sacks
“ When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, ‘smoked salmon and Bach.’ (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same). Oliver Sacks
“ We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognise and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses -- secret senses, sixth senses, if you will --… Oliver Sacks
“ The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: str… Oliver Sacks
“ An octopus may have half a billion nerve cells distributed between its brain and its arms (a mouse, by comparison, has only 75 to 100 million). There is a remarkable degree of organization in the octo… Oliver Sacks
“ One must go to Dostoievsky who experienced on occasion ecstatic epileptic auras to which he attached momentous significance, to find an adequate historical parallel. There are moments, and it is only… Oliver Sacks
“ I sometimes wonder why I pushed myself so relentlessly in weight lifting. My motive, I think, was not an uncommon one; I was not the ninety-eight-pound weakling of bodybuilding advertisements, but I w… Oliver Sacks
“ I monitored their medications, their often unstable neurological states, but I did my best, too, to see that they had full lives—as full as possible, given their physical limitations. I felt that tryi… Oliver Sacks
“ I gave a friend a bottle of mercury for his eightieth birthday—a special bottle that could neither leak nor break—he gave me a peculiar look, but later sent me a charming letter in which he joked, I t… Oliver Sacks
“ But who was more tragic, or who was more damned—the man who knew it, or the man who did not? Oliver Sacks
