Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.