“...I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans." Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25 — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Yes! Practice-singular!' the wise men screamed in unison. Three index fingers, like punctuation marks, jumped to attention in the air to emphasize… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For the first time I noticed – as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
“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
