I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

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.

Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.