“A number of my fellow religious studies majors- muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Things didn't turn out the way they used to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“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
“To chose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“And that wasn't the end of it. There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things?… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.” — 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
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers… — 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
