Honestly, Harold, keeping up with everything the machine whispers in my ear can be tricky, especially now that I'm down to one.

Because autistic or not, the differences that we have -- We've got a gift! Everyone's got a gift inside of us, and in all honesty, the pursuit of normality is the ultimate sacrifice of potential.

And what made that institutional founding especially important is that Maryland is the South, as you know, and, quite frankly, it was the first university in our state founded at a time when students of all races could go there.

Now, you know that New York does place a high value on attracting immigrants, so we were excited about the prospect of growth, but honestly, where were we going to grow in a city that was already built out to its edges and surrounded by water?

The fact is, Dassey's interrogation itself is actually not all that unique, and to be honest with you, I've seen worse.

And I now like being myself better than the idea of being someone else, someone who, to be honest, I have neither the option of being nor the ability fully to imagine.

The honest answer is that in healthcare, we often treat symptoms without addressing the conditions that make you sick in the first place.

Honestly, I believed that I could do more good with money for the poor than the poor could do for themselves.

Tell me. Tell me. Tell me. Tell me." Millions of questions for which, to be honest, I don't have the answers.

And I found some astonishing things in the course of my study that had never occurred to me. Frankly, in the days when I thought I'd had it with religion, I just found the whole thing absolutely incredible.

(Laughter) And to be honest with you, we could have finished earlier, but I think it took us three weeks because of all those tea breaks.

AmIhotornot.com -- everyday 250, 000 people go to this site, run by two volunteers, and I can tell you they are hard graders -- (Laughter) They didn't get this way by advertising a lot.

And to be honest, for many years, my answer would be, "I don't know. I simply love learning languages."

But this idea also doesn't solve the problem of the cognitive bandwidth and, to be honest, it's also quite similar to the idea of having a representative.

I just hadn't done what I need to do to reach it, and, honestly, I was tired of trying, putting more effort into life than everyone else and falling farther and farther behind.

And to be honest, if I had known when I was asked to give this upbeat talk that even as I was giving the upbeat talk, the apocalypse would be unfolding -- (Laughter) -- I might have said, "Is it okay if I talk about something else?"