Talking about diseases is an entertainment reminiscent of "One Thousand and One Nights". - William Osler
"The doctor (unlike the naturalist) deals... with a single organism: man as a subject, while under adverse conditions he struggles to maintain his identity." - Ivy McKenzie
"The double motto and the contrast between the two excerpts—and ultimately the contrast that Ivy McKenzie points out between the doctor and the naturalist—corresponds to a personal duality of mine: that I myself feel both doctor and naturalist at the same time; and that I am equally interested in diseases and in people; perhaps also because I am equally, though imperfectly, a theorist and a dramatist, made equally for the scientific and the romantic, and I constantly find both in the human condition, as well as in disease, which constitutes the quintessence of the human condition; and animals get sick, but only man falls wholly into illness." - Oliver Sacks
"The characters in the book surpass in strangeness most works of science fiction. Dr. Sacks presents the formidable powers of our mind and how delicate is the balance that must be maintained." - Sunday Times
"A wonderful book. Sacks is always taught by his patients, he admires them, expanding his own understanding as well as ours." - Punch
"This book is for those who have at times felt that sting of self-awareness and realized how easily, at any moment, you can lose your mind." - The Times
