Animals make us Human.

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

I am different, not less

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick

My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.

True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan

I just do my best to react to chaos with love, and hopefully, other people will catch on and do things out of love too.

Trying will do anything in this world.

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free