I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.

When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, 'I can't understand this at all, dear, so it must be good.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

Snowman wakes before dawn.

Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases.” “Them?” “Nature and God.” “I thought you didn’t believe in God,” said Jimmy. “I don’t believe in Nature either,” said Crake. “Or not with a capital N.