I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me…

“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to…

— Michael Ondaatje

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

— Michael Ondaatje

“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its…

— Michael Ondaatje

“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly…

— Michael Ondaatje

Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would…

— Michael Ondaatje

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at…

— Michael Ondaatje

There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

— Michael Ondaatje

From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

— Michael Ondaatje

“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you…

— Michael Ondaatje

“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him…

— Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the…

— Michael Ondaatje

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

— Michael Ondaatje

“The Time Around Scars: A girl whom I've not spoken to or shared coffee with for several years writes of an old scar. On…

— Michael Ondaatje

“- Daca ti-as incredinta viata mea, ai scapa-o pe jos. Nu-i asa?”

— Michael Ondaatje