Life of Pi

"A tiger is perfectly adapted for survival in the wild."

"I counted every day I lived on the lifeboat."

"Every important thing I have learned came from a animal."

"I learned that suffering is its own form of mathematics."

"The lifeboat became my whole world."

"I needed to see the godly face of every creature."

"The ocean provides, if you know how to look."

"I had to keep my mind occupied to stay sane."

"Life on a lifeboat is a constant negotiation with death."

"A man can get used to anything."

"Survival is not a spiritual discipline. It is a battle."

"Tigers are not afraid of anything in nature, except man."

"I discovered that fear, food, and sleep were my main concerns."

"Faith is different from dogma."

"I love India more than I know how to say."

"The sea is life's greatest teacher of survival."

"I was never lonely except in the beginning."

"Practical atheism, which is the basis of every modern society."

"I named the tiger Richard Parker, after the hunter from my childhood."

"The world isn't just the way it is. It is the way you understand it."

"Religion is about turning untested belief into deep conviction."

"It was my great fortune to be a zookeeper's son."

"If you stumble about believability, what are you living for?"

"I am still hot, still troubled, but I am here."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond any doubt."

"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy."

"Atheism is just as blind as fundamentalism and offers no truths."

"Animals in the wild live subject to hunger, thirst, and injury, the ravages of disease and the inevitability of death by predation."

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

"I am still a person of faith. That has never changed."