Jean-Dominique Bauby

Jean-Dominique Bauby (23 April 1952 – 9 March 1997) was a well-known French journalist and author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE who suffered from locked-in syndrome. He was able to dictate his memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by blinking his left eye.

Quotes

 * The city, that monster with a hundred mouths and a thousand ears, a monster that knows nothing but says everything, had written me off.
 * Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death), trans. Jeremy Leggatt (Vintage, 1998, ISBN 0-375-70121-4 ), p. 82