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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks.

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.