Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls

A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.

I think you should stay with your trainers, with your team, and support them.

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

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.

We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.