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

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.

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 know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

Do you trust me to be strong enough…strong enough to love you in the way you need to be loved?

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.

Every great love starts with a great story.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.