People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

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 are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

And the Lady's mate. Despite having only two legs and small fangs, there was much that was feline in that one, and he approved.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.

I'm certainly lucky to have got famous through something that was so well liked, generally speaking.

We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.

Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

I will still carry on changing all the time.

I want you," she said. "I told you so," he said.

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.