I've been on antidepressants for years, and it worked to stop my anxiety and didn't limit creativity. Some of the best work I've done, in fact, is after I started taking the antidepressants.

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?

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

When man to man shall be friend and brother.

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.

Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore