Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

Do you think someone can change? Like maybe in a year or two? Like, do you think if maybe two people aren't right for each other right now, maybe they could be later?

So that’s what art is, for the artist, ” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

The air smelled like a mélange of everyone's perfume and hair products, with a slight undertone of booze.