If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

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?

Positive thinkers always affirm blessings on themselves and see themselves as legitimate heirs.

You misinterpret everything, even the silence.

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.

There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]

August is a wicked month.

I love acting so much more than singing, and hopefully I'd be able to venture into that properly.

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

I don't look as handsome in Men in Black II as I did in the first one.