These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

We understand more than we know.

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

He feels the need to hear a human voice—a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lion—his idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle – that should be his tone.

So that’s what art is, for the artist, ” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.

She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.

I cannot live without books.

Dare to share for to Give is to truly Live. -RVM

When you are writing you're creating beauty for mind.

Without constructive skepticism, without human progress.

The reason why lovers are never wary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.

There's no night without stars.

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about.

You can't send a girl in to do what a lady can do.

I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.