Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to… — 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
If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you! — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights… — 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
