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“A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has to earn her respect. then he has to cherish her trust. and then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about. That's the most important thing in the world. That's what a man is, Yaar. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you do that, you're not a man.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting”
― Gregory David Roberts

“There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love. ”
― Gregory David Roberts

“One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I'd always thought that fate was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of the stars. But I suddenly realised that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“She'd confused honour with virtue. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honorable way—the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason—and you can enforce the peace without any honor at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble. And gangsters, just like cops, politicians, soldiers, and holy men, are only ever good at what they do if they stay humble.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The hosts—our bodies—and the viruses—any bug that makes us sick—are locked in a competition with each other. When the parasite attacks, the host develops a defence. Then the virus changes to beat that defence, so the host gets a new defence. And that keeps on going. They call it a Red Queen Contest. It's from the story, you know, Alice in Wonderland.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Every human heartbeat, he'd said many times, is a universe of possibilities.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Dawn put fire in the sky.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“...we spoke to none but the few we trusted with our wounded lives.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the world really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“...it was the source of a constant and almost unbearable pain.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I'd burned all the bridges that might've led me home.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“...assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks from ambush, with no warning and no mercy. I know now that assassin grief can hide for years and the strike suddenly, on the happiest day, without discernible reason or exegesis.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“...assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks from ambush, with no warning and no mercy. I know now that assassin grief can hide for years and then strike suddenly, on the happiest day, without discernible reason or exegesis.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I couldn't understand the dark and trembling mood that was moving in me, swelling to the sorrow I'd too long denied, I couldn't understand it, so I tried to fight it as a man fights pain or despair. But you can't bite down on assassin grief, and will it away. The enemy stalks you, step for step, and knows your every move before you make it. The enemy is your own grieving heart and, when it strikes, it can't miss.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“But I couldn't cry them, those tears, and I felt that I was drowning in a sorrow that was bigger than the heart that tried to hold it.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Signing off now, but keeping the line open, as always, I'll say Amen.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“...my heart put a wishing star in my eyes for them.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“As we walked, it occurred to me that the slum had been strangely devoid of pariah dogs. I noticed that there were none visible anywhere on the streets.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“St. Martin's Press, whose erudition, urbanity, and love for the world of the word are an artist's inspiration.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“...who was always the first to read the words, and to speak love for them; and my mother and my stepfather, whose unflagging moral, spiritual, and financial support—beyond what I've ever deserved or could repay—has sustained me, and uplifted this work.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram