Things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. - Yann Martel

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.