Writer: So your story does have a happy ending. Adult Pi Patel: Well, that's up to you. The story's yours now.
Pi Patel: [during a massive storm, Pi observes a terrified Richard Parker being thrown around by waves crashing into the boat] Why are you scaring him? I lost my family! I lost everything! I surrender! What more do you want?
Adult Pi Patel: With one word, my name went from an elegant French swimming pool to a stinking Indian latrine - I was pissing everywhere.
Adult Pi Patel: What has mamaji already told you? Writer: He said you had a story that would make me believe in God. Adult Pi Patel: [laughs] He would say that about a nice meal.
Pi Patel: I can eat the biscuits, but God made tigers carnivorous, so I must learn to catch fish. If I don't, I'm afraid his last meal would be a skinny vegetarian boy.
Pi Patel (11: Thank you Vishnu, for introducing me to Christ.
Pi Patel: [holding out oar to floating orangutan] Welcome to Pi's Ark.
Pi Patel: [voice over] I never thought a small piece of shade could bring me so much happiness. That a pile of tools, a bucket, a knife, a pencil, might become my greatest treasures. Or that knowing Richard Parker was here might ever bring me peace. ...
Younger Insurance Investigator: [with a look of disbelief] Bananas don't float. You said the Orangutan floated to you in a bundle of bananas, but bananas don't float.
Adult Pi Patel: My uncle Francis was born with too much water in his lungs. They say the doctors swung Francis around by the ankles to clear the water out, and that's what gave him the huge chest and skinny legs that made him such a great swimmer.
Writer: I didn't know Hindus said 'Amen.' Adult Pi Patel: Catholic Hindus do. Writer: Catholic Hindus? Adult Pi Patel: We get to feel guilty before hundreds of gods instead of just one.
Adult Pi Patel: Now we have to send our little boy to the middle of the Pacific. Writer: And make me believe in God. Adult Pi Patel: Yes, we will get there.
Pi Patel: [on killing a fish] Thank you Lord Vishnu. Thank you for coming in the form of a fish and saving our lives.
Pi Patel: [facing a storm on the lifeboat] Richard Parker, come out you have to see this! It's beautiful!
Santosh Patel: Spectacle. Don't let the stories and pretty lights fool you, boys. Religion is darkness.
Pi Patel: God? I give myself to you. I am your vessel. Whatever comes, I want to know. Show me.
Writer: Have I forgotten anything? Adult Pi Patel: I think you set the stage. So far we have an Indian boy named after a French swimming pool on a Japanese ship full of animals heading to Canada.
Adult Pi Patel: [after describing what the priest in the Church told him about Jesus] That made no sense!
