A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

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.