Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

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

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that.

Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.

Life's not fair; why should I be?

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.