Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.

I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.

Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.

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.

A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.