Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.