I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insa

In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.