“There’s something singularly moving about that moment when this man – deaf and sick and misanthropic and self-torturing, at the same time one of the most extraordinary and boundlessly generous men our species has produced – greets us person to person, with glass raised, and hails us as friends.”

“There’s something singularly moving about that moment when this man – deaf and sick and misanthropic and self-torturing, at the same time one of the most extraordinary and boundlessly generous men our species has produced – greets us person to person, with glass raised, and hails us as friends.”

— Jan Swafford