“The hormonal genies that have lived unnoticed in the brain since humankind began have escaped; there is no way that they can be put back.”

“People have learned to escape reality very well but too often lose their way back.”

“Brain/body relationships might depend upon a chorus of individual hormones... which are released together to sing hormonal harmonies to the body.”

“The greatest array of brain hormones is found in the ventricle, not in the spinal fluid.”

“The measurement of hormones in the bloodstream of patients will not reflect the endocrine activity of the brain.”

“there must be a way.

surely there must be a way that we have not yet
thought of.

who put this brain inside of me?

it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.

it will not say
"no.”

“Physicians and scientists will measure brain hormones—in ventricular fluid and elsewhere—will link these to specific diseases, and will devise space-age techniques to restock the mind's hormonal pantries. The only question is, When?'”

“It was like having a genie. I'd only get so many wishes.”

“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot since I read it to you first.”

“Certain coincidences risk passing unnoticed; certain people have appeared in our lives on several occasions without our realizing it.”