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….

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you..

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me..

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they ….

Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourse….

I grew up amongst biologists..

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you….

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'.

Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian angels, that they could do….

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing..

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely..

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist..

At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I….

We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility..

She who pays the undertaker calls the tune..

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions wo….

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?.

I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Rich….

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea..