Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

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?

People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process.

Worse is man who abandons himself

No woman will ever take care of my children but me, she said. I will not allow it, do you understand?And after I am gone Madge Toxley, if you try to make them yours, then you will live to regret it.

Resting for me is fitness training.

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.

The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.