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
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
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
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto… — 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
