To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.