When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early educational intervention.

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?

Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering.

A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.