Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in the past few months was dreamed first by Crake. No wonder Crake screamed so much.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-lying islands off the coast of India are being swept away, you know, it's already happening to some people. We happen to be very lucky so far.