"It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential."

-- Hans Asperger

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“Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.”
“Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.”
“You tell the people the stories the best you know. If there is something you don't know, you be up front and make that clear. You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air. That's just my kind of old-fashioned news values.”
“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.”
“Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.”
“And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.”
“There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.”

Source : "A life in the arts: Simon Callow". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.
“The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.”

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