I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.

Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all manner of thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas.

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.