But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

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 surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder.