- Female Interviewee: I think I've been disfigured; or at least blinded.
- Spalding Gray: I looked across the park, and in the distance I saw leaves blowing in the wind, bunch of children running, a red ball rolling, a flock of starlings taking off. I covered my right eye:
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- Spalding Gray: no leaves. Blur of children, blotch of red, no birds. Covered my left: ah! Ecstacy. Cover my right: despair. Ecstacy. Despair. And I realized at that moment that I was now living the perfect yin and yang existence.
- Spalding Gray: "But is there anything that can be done for the left eye, any corrective measures?" "Yes, I think so. I recommend a little macular scraping." As soon as I heard that word "scraping," I knew I wanted a second, third and fourth opinion.