Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

I see my father. I see him gone away. My world is a little bit colder.

I’m of the camp that if an angel tells you one thing, and a man in ruby slippers tells you another, you go with the angel.

There must be something to acupuncture - after all you never see any sick porcupines.

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge.

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

I want to try to become the best golfer in the world.