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

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

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

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

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

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

All humans are born with raw creativity ability, but not all creativities are created equal.

The genius inside a person wants activity. It’s connected to the stars

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

All living things have an aura, a rapidly vibrating, invisible psychic energy field that protects them from toxic, non-physical energies that would otherwise be detrimental to them.

When I don't have anything to say, I don't publish. Rather than posting something that's not very interesting, it's best to wait until you have something that really inspires you and makes you laugh.

Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.

I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!

I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question.

Her skin was white as leprosy.