Quotes by : Michael Ondaatje

In the morning she found pieces of a birdchopped and scattered by the fanblood sprayed onto the mosquito....

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

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the....

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.

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

Girls with poison necklacesto save themselves from torture.Just as women wear amuletswhich hold their....

-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.-Deny....

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

Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her,....