“Sopravvissi perché decisi di dimenticare. La mia avventura ebbe inizio...” — Yann Martel Quote

“Sopravvissi perché decisi di dimenticare. La mia avventura ebbe inizio il 2 luglio 1977 e terminò il 14 febbraio 1978, ma in mezzo per me non ci furono date. Non contai i giorni, né le settimane, né i mesi. Il tempo è un’illusione che toglie il fiato. Così lo cancellai.”

“Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?”

“I'm still learning my craft.”

“Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.”

“Christianity is a religion in a rush.”

“I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.”

“The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.”

“There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.”

“Sie litten alle unter der Angst, keine Zeit für alles zu haben, und wussten nicht, dass Zeit haben nichts anderes heißt, als keine Zeit für alles zu haben.”

“There is no necessity to live by the clock.”

“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”

“The jumbled brick and stone of the city's landscape is a medley of style in which centuries and decades rub shoulders in a disorder that denies the sequence of time.”