Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.

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

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

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