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

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

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

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.

In a fight, If you don't take challenges someone does.

It’s chaos out there, and chaos is what we need.

Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.

I am too tall [to dance]. Tall people don’t dance. It’s just not right.