The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.

His father was posted as a diplomat for the Canadian government at the time of his birth. And for this same reason English gives me a sufficient distance to write. He now lives in Saskatoon Canada.

And for this same reason English gives me a sufficient distance to write. Although his first language is French Yann Martel writes in English: "English is the language in which I best express the subtlety of life. ".