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.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

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

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

I thought Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

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.