Gregory David Roberts

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

— 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

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

What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied,…

— Gregory David Roberts

I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“Anything that inhibits, impedes, or prevents this movement toward the Ultimate Complexity is evil. The wonderful thing about this definition of good…

— Gregory David Roberts

“The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for…

— 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

Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says,…

— Gregory David Roberts

I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again.…

— 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

The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt…

— Gregory David Roberts

“every time I entered the slum I felt the urge to let go and surrender to a simpler, poorer life, that was…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Money isn’t the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. There’s no such thing as clean money. All…

— 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

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

“But somehow, in some way, for some reason, the love had died in me, and I suddenly realised it, and was suddenly…

— 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

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

— Gregory David Roberts

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

— Gregory David Roberts

“A young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: He brought her stories from the wider world, where…

— Gregory David Roberts

“I love you, Karla,” I said when we were alone again. “I loved you the first second I saw you. I think…

— Gregory David Roberts

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

— Gregory David Roberts