"Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality."

“The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.”

“I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.”

Source : "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”

“I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.”

“Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.”

“If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.”

“I don't know of any neuropsychiatric disorder other than an infection that has been cured. But the goal is to improve the quality of life of people who experience autistic symptomology and I just think we will make progress on that.”

Source : "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

“Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.”