Every book Ive written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. – Yann Martel
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. Its something I really like. I like movies. – Yann Martel
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally – certainly with my secular background – the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. – Yann Martel
If I didnt have children, I think my life would be a failure. – Yann Martel
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. – Mitch Daniels