If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

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.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.