Gregory David Roberts

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

— Gregory David Roberts

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

— Gregory David Roberts

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Gregory David Roberts

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

— Gregory David Roberts

“Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.”

— Gregory David Roberts

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

— Gregory David Roberts

“The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving that.”

— Gregory David Roberts

The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.

— Gregory David Roberts

“For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on.”

— Gregory David Roberts

Ask people for help. You’ll be all right. Don’t worry. It’s a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a…

— Gregory David Roberts

“I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.”

— Gregory David Roberts

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

— Gregory David Roberts

“The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“I hesitated. Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate.…

— Gregory David Roberts

They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag…

— Gregory David Roberts

If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better…

— Gregory David Roberts

“There’s a truth that’s deeper than experience. It’s beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It’s an order of truth…

— Gregory David Roberts

“What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply…

— Gregory David Roberts

“The little victories haggled from him by foreign tourists cost Anand his daily bread, and cost them the chance to know him…

— Gregory David Roberts

The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Tomorrow,’ she said, ‘when you go to Prabaker’s village, try to relax completely, and go with the experience. Just … let yourself…

— Gregory David Roberts

“They are often brave, I'm sure, but they are stupid, too, because they give their lives for governments and causes that use…

— Gregory David Roberts

But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive.…

— Gregory David Roberts

“A mujaheddin fighter once told me that fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves…

— Gregory David Roberts

That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know…

— Gregory David Roberts

A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than…

— Gregory David Roberts

A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has…

— Gregory David Roberts

“The cops watched me and the Georges and the other foreigners who worked the streets, and they knew exactly what we were…

— Gregory David Roberts

“That's how we keep this crazy place together - with the heart. Two hundred fuckin' languages, and a billion people. India is…

— 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

Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians,…

— Gregory David Roberts

“The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best…

— Gregory David Roberts

But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of…

— Gregory David Roberts

The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Riding a motorcycle is velocity as poetry. The fine balance between elegant agility and fatal fall is a kind of truth, and…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Evening brings the people to their windows, balconies, and doorways. Evening fills the streets with strolling crowds. Evening is an indigo tent…

— Gregory David Roberts