“There people fail to realise that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. - Pi… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“In zoos, as in nature, the best times to visit are sunrise and sunset. That is when most animals come to life.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I saw blood before turning into Mother's arms or if I daubed it on later, in my memory,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I blinked deliberately, expecting my eyelids to act like lumberjacks. But the trees would not fall.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. — 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
“I can't understand how a man who seems never to read imaginative writing of any kind (novels, poetry, short stories, high-brow, middle-brow,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are those who take upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. - "The Life of Pi” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. ... The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't… — 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
Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“...fear...is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life...you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“ Plan Number Three: Attack Him with All Available Weaponry. Ludicrous. I wasn’t Tarzan. I was a puny, feeble, vegetarian life form.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. It's important in life… — 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
“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
