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

The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

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

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.