I exist in two places, here and where you are.

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All of the motives a human being may have, which are mixed, that's the novelists' materials. That's where they have to go. And a lot of that just isn't pretty. We like to think of ourselves as really, really good people. But look in the mirror. Really look. Look at your own mixed motives. And then multiply that.

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.