We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

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.

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.