Gregory David Roberts

Quotes

1. I'd lost my closest friends in the same week, and with them I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says You are here. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and reasons for loving them.

2. 

   Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win

3. 

   We are made out of stars, you and I.

4. 

   It’s a fact of life on run that you often love more people than you trust. For people in the safe world, of course, exactly the opposite is true. - Lin

5. 

   Being in love we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said”

6. 

   "Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things."

7. 

   The truth is a bully we all pretend to like.

8. 

   The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

9. 

   "Nobody is ever naked in India. And especially, nobody is naked without clothes.

   So...how do you take a shower?

   By wearing the over-underpants over underpants."

10. 

    Optimism is the first cousin of love and it is exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humor, and it shows up where you least expect it.

11. 

    But the soul has no culture. The soul has no color, or accent, or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul cannot be stilled.

12. 

    The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.