There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We're helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I'm telling it to you now.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

There's no heart like the Indian heart.