We understand more than we know.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

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.

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.

To create a peaceful world, inhale the love of life and exhale the beauty of life.

Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence.

One can repent of a sin and have done with it

Possibility is not a luxury

The one who loses something is not a looser somewhere he/she is achieving more than that. You are the best just look at the mirror.

If we were in tune and communing with God every moment, where would be the need to pray or ask for anything?

Each person has their own brand and style and the way they do things.

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

I have a lot of dreams, and most of them come true these days.

There's nothing wrong with letting the girls know that you're money and that you want to party.