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

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

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

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

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

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 had on you.

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 spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.