Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.

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.

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.