“There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.”

“Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.”

“The precept that location is key to the success of a business applies to art, and even to life itself: we thrive or wither depending on how nourishing our environment is.”

“I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.”

“Animals don't escape to somewhere, but from something.”

“...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something”

“There people fail to realise that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. - Pi Patel in Life of Pi”