Quotes by : Michael Ondaatje

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her.....

How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond,....

I know the devices of a demon. I was taught as a child about the demon lover. I was told about a beautiful....

Aliganaya - 'the embraceduring an intoxicated walk'or 'sudden arousalwhile driving over speed bumps

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

There's water in my bonesa ghost of a chance

...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less....

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person....

How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something....