There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.

Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.

I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.