India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

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

The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?