I'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy.

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?

Let us live for passion, / for the taking off of clothes, /tossing them over our shoulder.

Exist with me. We'd do so beautifully.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

The more you care, the more you fear.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

What will you do with the time you have left?

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.