Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?