Quotes About Author

I don't even close my eyes. Out there or inside my head, it's an equal darkness. Or light.

It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.

Being socially retarded is like being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform.

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn't a human being. But if you are a lover of books as books – as objects, that is – and ignore the human element in them – that is, their voices – you will be committing an error of the soul, because you will be an idolator, or else a fetishist.

I guess you get all my money, I said. And I'm not even dead. I was trying for a joke, but it came out sounding macabre. Hush, he said. He was still kneeling on the floor. You know I'll always take care of you. I thought, already he's starting to patronize me. Then I thought, already you're starting to get paranoid.

Don't blame me, blame history, he says, smiling. Such things happen. Falling in love has been recorded, or at least those words have.

It was true, I took too much for granted; I trusted fate, back then.

All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.

It was Crake preserving his dignity, because the alternative would have been losing it.

Each thing is valid and really there. It is through a field of such valid objects that I must pick my way, every day and in every way. I put a lot of effort into making such distinctions. I need to make them. I need to be very clear, in my own mind.

I grew sodden with light; my skin on the inside glowed a dull red.

And I said that Crozier did not need to call Fuck right now because we were not in trouble and did not need his help. And Toby said, That's right, he doesn't like to be summoned on trivial matters. And Zeb coughed.

It's kind of shocking to hear Toby called a babe; sort of like calling God a studmuffin.

The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.

Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means.

Orpheus 2 He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed.

Are you there? I whisper. Large as life and twice as ugly, Moira whispers back.

The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains.

What's the difference between vision and a vision? The former relates to something it's assumed you've seen, the latter to something it's assumed you haven't. Language is not always dependable either.

Nothing takes place in the bed but sleep; or no sleep. I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed. There's a lot that doesn't bear thinking about. Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last.

You always do good ones. We trust you, Mr. Duke, Says Dylan. Foolish lads, thinks Felix: never trust a professional ham.

Maybe all women should be robots, he thinks with a tinge of acid: the flesh-and-blood ones are out of control.

Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter.