When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

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.

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

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

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

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.