Oryx And Crake Quotes

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

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

We understand more than we know.

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.

All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be...