A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
