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The family dynamics are complex; and as often happens in our own lives, how we view the people close to us, even when they are fictional characters, depends on where we stand in the world at that time.

Enlightenment and peace can never be achieved by force.

“Always comes down to money, huh?”

Makes the damn world go round.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything." (p161)

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think. (p59)

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way. (p84)

One of the hardest things about having a child with autism, parents told me, was struggling to maintain hope in the face of dire predictions from doctors, school administrators, and other professionals who were supposed to be on their side. (p 9)

Fierce and beautiful hunters who, when they ease up on their vigilance find themselves converted into coats and collars.

If I could only have seen her when I was a young man! The contemplation of her beauty might have changed my whole life. Beauty can do that, can’t it?

A wry saying popular in the autistic community, "If you meet one person with autism, you've met one person with autism," turns out to be true even for molecular biologists. (p 14)

We all see different versions of the same thing. I have written the truest book I was capable of creating. It's the way I've always made sense of the world and my life.

Why do you stand there staring at me? You and I have nothing in common except our hatred of each other.