I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not ….

I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that ot….

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves..

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the sa….

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult..

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new..

I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there i….

Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a su….

I want my name to mean me..

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book th….

...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt..

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a ….

And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a hal….

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we ar….

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could ne….

He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry wo….

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people..

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well..

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff go….

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence….

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone..