At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.

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

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

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.

Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give