Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

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.

I am not your justification for existence.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.