If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice..

But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are extinguished (the tig….

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books..

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one….

I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm program at the prison I us….

Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. ….

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive ….

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.

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

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of ….

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away..

I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from..

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it..

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not kno….

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away….

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened thi….

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to….

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline..

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness..

There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All of the motives ….

All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of Frenc….