Depression means that you have no point of view.

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

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

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

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.