I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.
That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.
Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.
Missionary work essentially is a priesthood responsibility, and all of us who hold the priesthood are the Lord's authorized servants on the earth and are missionaries at all times and in all places - and we always will be.
Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.
I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.
There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.
I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.
One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.
The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.
There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories.
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
I always felt ,like, I'll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic.
I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield.
Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
