On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness.

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it.

- I'm a Neuroscientist.- What's that? What do you study?- I study your brain!

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary project, I'm utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down.

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?