Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

You can’t make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.