Gregory David Roberts

“Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.”

— Gregory David Roberts

Powerful people have no regrets.

— Gregory David Roberts

There's no such thing as forever.

— Gregory David Roberts

“Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going?”

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Gregory David Roberts

“Žmogus, kuris niekur neskuba, niekur greitai nepatenka.”

— Gregory David Roberts

There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

— Gregory David Roberts

“There is an element of control we have over suffering.”

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Gregory David Roberts

“I can’t stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there’s no river.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“depression only happens to people who don’t know how to be sad.”

— Gregory David Roberts

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

— Gregory David Roberts

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

— Gregory David Roberts

“I hate it when people take so long to drink a single glass. IT is like putting on a condom to masturbate.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.”

— Gregory David Roberts

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Heaped up on the blankets, our bodies bound by weariness and her deep slumber, surrounded by sickness and hope, death and defiance,…

— Gregory David Roberts

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the…

— Gregory David Roberts

Sometimes, when you live a life at such a wild edge, an extreme edge of experience, you can come back into the…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument. Jealousy can raise…

— Gregory David Roberts

“I want everything,' she replied with a faint, wry smile. 'You know, I said that once to a friend of mine, and…

— Gregory David Roberts

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays…

— Gregory David Roberts

“I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much…

— Gregory David Roberts

“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness,…

— Gregory David Roberts

“But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and…

— Gregory David Roberts

It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would…

— Gregory David Roberts

“But I couldn’t respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no…

— Gregory David Roberts

While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that…

— Gregory David Roberts

Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists." Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Then there were the people. Assamese, Jats, and Punjabis; people from Rajasthan, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu; from Pushkar, Cochin, and Konarak; warrior…

— Gregory David Roberts

For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile…

— Gregory David Roberts

“They’d lied to me and betrayed me, leaving jagged edges where all my trust had been, and I didn’t like or respect…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Fanaticism is the opposite of love,’ I said, recalling one of Khaderbhai’s lectures. A wise man once told me—he’s a Muslim, by…

— Gregory David Roberts

“When we say that this definition of good and evil is objective, what we mean is that it is as objective as…

— Gregory David Roberts

There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from…

— Gregory David Roberts

The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the…

— Gregory David Roberts

“the ancient sanskirt legends speak of a destined love, a karmic connection between souls that are fated to meet and collide and…

— Gregory David Roberts

“In the beginning we feared everything—animals, the weather, the trees, the night sky—everything except each other. Now we fear each other, and…

— Gregory David Roberts

“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the…

— Gregory David Roberts