Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.

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?

If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.

Gratitude for being alive is the best way to rise and shine.

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Enlightenment is a group activity.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.