"[Pablo Escobar] always told me that the day he used the phone would be his last day, something I had very clear while I was talking to him."

“One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.”

“Denialism, a concept that was first widely used, as far as I know, for those who claimed that the Holocaust was a fraud, is the concept I believe we should use.”

“When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children together, bow down before the Lord, ask him to forgive your sins, and protect you through the day, to preserve you from temptation and all evil, to guide your steps aright...”

“It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.”

“Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.”

Source : Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.”

“If God answered all of your prayers, would the world look different or just your life?”

“The most important thing today is to stop US wars.”