Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

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.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?

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

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.