Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.

...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...

Identify the problem but never dwell on it. Focus on solutions.

To reach the high notes in life, you must open your heart to sing.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

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.

My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first.

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.