I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.

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.

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

We understand more than we know.