“The proper study of Mankind is Everything.”

“Those walls and bars are there for a reason,' said Crake. ' Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases”

“As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...”

“And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers”

“A language is everything you do.”

“Now that I am dead, I know everything.”

“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”