"Average talent, plus hard work and dedication, will always beat talent by itself."

“I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.”

Source : "Lady Rolling Stone". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2008.

“If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship,”

“You can go to a psychoanalyst one day and then go the next day and something else will come out. So, yes, there was some preparation. But still, when a person gets hypnotized, you don't really know what the outcome will be.”

“I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me.”

Source : Song: Just A Kid, Album: I Love Life, Thank You -Mixtape

“Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.”

Source : John Elder Robison (2011). “Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers”, p.128, Broadway Books

“Speaking absolutely, humility excels virginity.”

“Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.”

“The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.”