“This, in a nutshell, is Hinduism, and I have been a Hindu all my life. With its notions in mind I see… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I am a Hindu because of sculptured cones of red kumkum powder and baskets of yellow turmeric nuggets, because of garlands of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I know a woman here in Toronto who is very dear to my heart. She was my foster mother. I call her… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“And so, when she first heard of Hare Krishnas, she didn’t hear right. She heard “Hairless Christians”, and that is what they… — 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
