Quotes by : Yann Martel

What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting....

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope....

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for....

I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor....

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful....

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.....

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful....