Michael Ondaatje

“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly…

— Michael Ondaatje

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

— Michael Ondaatje

“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base…

— Michael Ondaatje

“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love…

— Michael Ondaatje

Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house…

— Michael Ondaatje

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever…

— Michael Ondaatje

There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

— Michael Ondaatje

From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

— Michael Ondaatje

“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is…

— Michael Ondaatje

“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never…

— Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist…

— Michael Ondaatje

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

— Michael Ondaatje

“The Time Around Scars: A girl whom I've not spoken to or shared coffee with for several years writes of an old…

— Michael Ondaatje

“- Daca ti-as incredinta viata mea, ai scapa-o pe jos. Nu-i asa?”

— Michael Ondaatje

“I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“And as the music ended, he saw her, like a woman in a romance, pull from her cotton sleeve a note that…

— Michael Ondaatje

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Caravaggio was constantly diverted by the human element during burglaries. Breaking into a house during Christmas, he would become annoyed if the…

— Michael Ondaatje

…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze…

— Michael Ondaatje

“I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of…

— Michael Ondaatje

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as…

— Michael Ondaatje

“But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn’t understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he…

— Michael Ondaatje

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

— Michael Ondaatje

“Blood a necklace on me all my life.”

— Michael Ondaatje