Graeme Simsion

“Did you get the cup?" I held it up. "Is it the right one?" she said. I am not good at nonverbal…

— Graeme Simsion

You can’t go through life not listening to music.

— Graeme Simsion

“There was also a dark-haired man of about thirty (BMI approximately twenty) who appeared not to have shaved for several days, and,…

— Graeme Simsion

“It seems hardly possible to analyse such a complex situation involving deceit and supposition of another person’s emotional response, and then prepare…

— Graeme Simsion

“Amazing. She retains a professor of genetics, an alien of extraordinary abilities, to help find her father, she travels for a week,…

— Graeme Simsion

Interestingly for me, modern rom coms have not always been funny - many of the iconic rom coms are more like light…

— Graeme Simsion

“There was only one bar of that name, in a back street of an inner suburb. I had already modified the day’s…

— Graeme Simsion

You’re unbelievable,’ said Rosie. ‘Look at me when I’m talking.’ I kept looking out the window. I was already over-stimulated. ‘I know…

— Graeme Simsion

“You considered me as a partner?’ ‘Sure,’ she said. ‘Except for the fact that you have no idea of social behaviour, your…

— Graeme Simsion

“If she's a psychology student, she'll love talking about herself.”

— Graeme Simsion

“We are genetically programmed to react to stimuli in our immediate vicinity. Responding to complex issues that we cannot perceive directly requires…

— Graeme Simsion

“Vegetarians and vegans can be incredibly annoying. Gene has a joke: ‘How can you tell if someone is a vegan? Just wait…

— Graeme Simsion

“As soon as my watch showed 5:00 p.m., I walked in. Gene was at the lectern of the darkened theatre, still talking,…

— Graeme Simsion

“My schedule and social skills had now been brought into line with conventional practice, to the best of my ability within the…

— Graeme Simsion

“I need not be visibly odd. I could engage in the protocols that others followed and move undetected among them. And how…

— Graeme Simsion

“Time’s up. Excellent work. All the rational solutions came from the aspies. Everyone else was incapacitated by emotion.”

— Graeme Simsion

Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.

— Graeme Simsion

“But I’m not good at understanding what other people want.’ ‘Tell me something I don’t know,’ said Rosie for no obvious reason.…

— Graeme Simsion

“Logically, I should be attractive to a wide range of women. In the animal kingdom, I would succeed in reproducing. However, there…

— Graeme Simsion

“An escort from the lounge took us to the plane for the fourteen-and-a-half-hour flight to Los Angeles. As a result of my…

— Graeme Simsion

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

— Graeme Simsion

“Humans should be permanently under development.”

— Graeme Simsion

“Contrary to popular belief, alcohol does not destroy brain cells.”

— Graeme Simsion

“Time has been redefined. Previous rules no longer apply. Alcohol is hereby declared mandatory in the Rosie Time Zone.”

— Graeme Simsion

“What must do the hard thing? He who can.”

— Graeme Simsion