here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.

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

Love rekindles the soul of every man.

In the past the man has been first

The Best Marketing Is Education!

If it’s the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that I’m driving down a long road with a short bridge.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.

It's fun being on a TV show and not having to wear heels.