"You have to be practical...the hardest thing about
recovering from a trauma is to learn how
practical, how real, how permanent it is. When you
begin to learn that, then you actually can think
about doing anything."

"Being the first person in a wheelchair to do anything
is interesting for about 10 minutes."

"In the lobby of the NBC building where I work people ask me
for my autograph, but two blocks away at Times Square
people give me change, thinking that I'm a beggar in a
wheelchair."

"...you may comfortably note that I am a person
not afraid of bees."