I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.

Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

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