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

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

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

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.