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

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….

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary..

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomf….

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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..

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….

I want my name to mean me..