Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
Yann MartelJust as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
Yann MartelChristianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
Yann Martel