Tim Page: "By now, I am fairly used to myself, and my symptoms [of Asperger’s Syndrome] bloom publicly only on rare occasions. Waiting for the check after a Washington lunch in 2005, I realized that it was both the hundred and fortieth anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination and exactly forty years since the murderers of the Clutter family ('In Cold Blood') were put to death in Kansas. I doubt that my companion was equally thrilled by this coincidence, especially when elaborated upon in such sudden, bursting detail in the middle of a lovely spring day, but at least I controlled the temptation to launch into a lengthy exculpation of Mrs. Surratt. I count that as progress."
Sources
The New Yorker, Aug. 20, 2007, p. 41
