Yann Martel

“Only fear can defeat life.”

— Yann Martel

...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

— Yann Martel

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

— Yann Martel

“You can keep your sweaty, chatty Son to yourself.”

— Yann Martel

“This book was born as I was hungry. Let m eexplain.”

— Yann Martel

“It is true that those we meet can change us”

— Yann Martel

“I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal.”

— Yann Martel

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

— Yann Martel

“Change becomes a habit and habits are hard to change .”

— Yann Martel

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much…

— Yann Martel

“Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?”

— Yann Martel

“What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.”

— Yann Martel

I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

— Yann Martel

“a problem of the soul, a heaviness of the heart, a darkness of the conscience”

— Yann Martel

“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.”

— Yann Martel

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

— Yann Martel

“It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood.”

— Yann Martel

Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces.…

— Yann Martel

“Bapu Ghandi said, "All religions are true." I just want to love God," I blurted out, and looked down, red in the…

— Yann Martel

Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such…

— Yann Martel

“We are cynical about our own species, but less so about animals, especially wild ones. We might not shelter them from habitat…

— Yann Martel

“We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship.”

— Yann Martel

“My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind…

— Yann Martel

“If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you…

— Yann Martel

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should…

— Yann Martel

But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his…

— Yann Martel

“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you bully me with your…

— Yann Martel

“Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an…

— Yann Martel

Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer…

— Yann Martel

“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are…

— Yann Martel

God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims…

— Yann Martel

The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice…

— Yann Martel

“My face set to a grim and determined expression. I speak in all modesty as I say this, but I discovered at…

— Yann Martel

“It's not right that gentleness meet horror.”

— Yann Martel

“Why can't I be a Hindu, a Christian, and a Muslim?”

— Yann Martel

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

— Yann Martel

“the senile, lecherous expression of a camel.”

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“That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.”

— Yann Martel

It's amazing how willpower can build walls.

— Yann Martel

“Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness.”

— Yann Martel