Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.

Then a person has only one tale?” No, some have two or three separate ones or more,” Fleet said. “Some people have many tales. Sometimes they are linked into one big tale, sometimes they are utterly distinct. Most people do not have one at all.

On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness.