Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

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?

Spend some personal time with Jesus and he will reveal himself to you on a deeper level.

Anger as soon as fed is dead 'tis starving makes it fat.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

The fake Zionist [regime] will disappear from the landscape of geography.

You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior, which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.'

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

A lot of the things I say I'm just trying to be funny... I don't really mean everything I say, because I'm not totally that airhead.