And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don't really understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.

John Elder Robison

October was always the least dependable of months… Full of ghosts and shadows.

Joy Fielding

All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.

Haruki Murakami

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

Sylvia Plath

I don't want to be alone. I want to be left alone.

Audrey Hepburn

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Pat Conroy