You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.

The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.