When I was small, I didn't even know that I was a kid with special needs. How did I find out? By other people telling me that I was different from everyone else, and that this was a problem.

Everybody has a heart that can be touched by something.

Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.

True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect.

We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?

The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...

During the 24/7 grind of being a carer, it's all to easy to forget the fact that the person you're doing so much for is, and is obliged to be, more resourceful than you in many respects.

autism is more like retina patterns than measles

The value of a person shouldn't be decided by the judgements of other people. Kindness brings out the best in us all.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

Chess demands total concentration

Poets wish to profit or to please.

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.