“And what a story. The first thing that drew me in was disbelief. What? Humanity sins but it's God's Son who pays… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“And what a story. The first thing that drew me in was disbelief. What? Humanity sins but it's God's Son who pays… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Bapu Ghandi said, "All religions are true." I just want to love God, " I blurted out, and looked down, red in… — 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
“I know a woman here in Toronto who is very dear to my heart. She was my foster mother. I call her… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Father raised his hands. "Gentlemen, gentlemen,please!" he interjected. "I would like to remind you there is freedom of practice in this country."… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk… — 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
