Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
We breed dogs to be more social than the wolf. There is very interesting research that has been done with a wolf and a domestic dog.
Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.
By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.
There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers. . . when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.
Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
I think that every record has its own life and a different sound.
People don't very much like things that are beautiful. . they are so far from their nasty little minds.
You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.