If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

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?

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves

I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.

We are filled vessels that gets to choose what we pour back into the world, and what we choose to share defines who we are.

Like an energy even an opportunity cannot be destroyed, if you don't accept, it goes to someone else.

No, I’m afraid your overconfidence, as with most young men who dream of becoming successful, can quite quickly become the Achilles’ heel of your continued mediocrity

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally