People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.

Giving those animals [in shelter] quality time - now, I have been in some of the shelters where the cats have been in group housing. Well if you have a cat that never gets out of sternal recumbency, now what that means is that [inaudible] - that's a stressed cat. If they lay on their side, then they are not stressed out.

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

When I was younger, I didn't even realize the way I think visually is different.

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

There are three basic ways [to use a dog to work with autistic children], one is just to be companion person and I'm thinking now more of autistic kids not somebody in a wheelchair or the dog belongs to a therapist and then it's used as an ice breaker to get the kid talking and get the kid interacting.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.