It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".

The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.

Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.

I was a mess when the movie [Into the Forest] ended and I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest endings.

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.