The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.

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?

For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about . . . never underestimate the importance of a kind act.

It's in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person.

I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

That didn't really matter, how you judge how successful you are is basically when you turn up to do a gig and people come and have a good time.

Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.