“I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up an...” — Laura Hillenbrand Quote

“I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.”

“I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.”

“This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.”

“I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.”

“Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.”

“I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.”

“My identity is in Christ, and I really hope that I show that with just my character, the way that I do things on the pool deck.”

“Any gay man in America redeals a deck at some point.”

“Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.”

“I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.”

“When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.”

“Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.”