When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It's very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something of lasting value. That's the meaning of life, it's that simple.

I've been on antidepressants for years, and it worked to stop my anxiety and didn't limit creativity. Some of the best work I've done, in fact, is after I started taking the antidepressants.

There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.