Nature is to zoos as God is to churches..

It is better to hope than to mope!.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow..

You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing.….

Love's never a fair trade..

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered..

The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voi….

He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone….

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way..

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go a….

Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance..

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears..

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it..

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise..

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind..

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. ...Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves,….

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars..

Each form has its pluses and its minuses..

Just as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going to end up with something that will s….

Fear has a smell, as love does..

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own..