The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them together so she can be whole again.

Leadership is about what’s right for the organization, not what feels right for the leader.

If you bring forth what is within you what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

I hate Mcdonalds... but i'm forced to eat it.

My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.

There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for it.

The only explanation on what's happened today is my opponent was better than me.

I think this is one of those issues where the deeper you dig, the murkier it gets - and everyone who has spent a lot of time thinking about these issues.