Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Not real can tell us about real.

My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

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.

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

To want is to have a weakness.