I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

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

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

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