We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.
Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.
If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.
And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.
I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.
If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it. . . that's a real problem.
When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.
Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, who has given the supreme gift of the Name of the Lord.
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.