My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And sweet.

We don’t live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.

Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn't have to pull it down and use it on yourself.

We live in a world that relies on technology.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

I like my clients. All of my clients say, "Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion." They really don't want to be talked about.