As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.

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?

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

Behold the day-break!I awaken you by sitting on your chest and purring in your face, I stir you with muscular paw-prods, I rouse you with toe-

Ricin - Death by diarrhea

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.