“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something… — 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,… — 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… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
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
“The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb… — 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
