I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends..

I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the ….

I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that ….

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person..

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time ha….

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler sens….

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others..

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty..