Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

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

This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response of anyone--other people's reactions, their emotions, their criticisms, their demands--but somehow they don't reciprocate. Maybe they can't. Maybe they lack the gift, if it is one.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.