Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater. — 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
Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go… — 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
