“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
“But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a… — 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
I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way. — 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
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
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The clear liquid in our eyes is seawater and therefore there are fish in our eyes, seawater being the natural medium of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and… — 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
“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? [...] Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.” — 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
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you bully me with your… — 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
I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. — 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
