How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

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

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

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.

I went to boarding school and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.