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.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

We understand more than we know.

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

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

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 remember thinking as a child that diamonds were stars that fell from the sky as shooting stars. You can only imagine my disappointment at learning the truth of them. I still prefer the stars.

Is life worth living? Aye with the best of us Heights of us depths of us- Life is the test of us!

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

And rely on Him with 100 percent of your faith for 100 percent of your life throughout 100 percent of your tomorrows. He will give you a peace no thief can ever steal.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.

I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.