The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.

Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power.

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

I love animals and plants and sometimes even people.

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.

What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

Myrnin: "I shall name him Bob, Bob the spider" Claire: "You're insane." Myrnin: "Why Claire, I thought that was part of my charm." (something like that)