Words are dead, until action brings them life.

You look like your bringing news. What is it this time, I’m blind?

I wondered if there was anything [the doctor] could do to to make the pain disappear and my arms work again. I wondered if I was going to get any worse than I already was....

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away – even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of...

There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.

Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn’t understand.