What you get is no longer what you see.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.'

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.