Gregory David Roberts

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. ”

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India. ”

Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction. ”

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work. ”