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

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

Sometimes, when you live a life at such a wild edge, an extreme edge of experience, you can come back into the world - if you come back at all - with some essence from that experience that people find useful.

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.