I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“To chose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow?… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“If Christ played doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the cross,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is ken to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
