“Do deaf people have alarm clocks? I asked a deaf guy that one time, the sumbitch just stared at me.”

“I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.”

“People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.”

“Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.”

“I myself regard the deaf people as superheroes, protectors of the visual language”

“Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.”

“I have a gift. I am a human alarm clock. I wake people up to themselves. You can hit the snooze and ignore me but eventually you’ll have to wake up.”

“Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb a the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.”

“When you feel sad just think about deaf, blind, homeless people or people in Somali, orphans and thank God and keep smiling. Never give up. ”

“Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?”