I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

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.

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.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.