Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.

Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.

Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that autism is lifelong. But it is.

Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers near 80 percent.

Jackie.''Mm.''Thank you for keeping me company in my nightmare.'Jackie grinned at her, 'Nah, it's our nightmare now.

You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.

One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual.

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

I find I'm an old soul.

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.