David Roberts
David Roberts
ocean blood sweat
We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.
medicine black kind
Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
stars laughter love-you
at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.
hate real literature
hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words
rain privacy showers
Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business
simple men perfect
The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
book firsts shantaram
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.
notorious has-beens
Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
stupid lazy making-money
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
war mistake hate
I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.
mean gun glory
Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.
believe shantaram knowing-god
There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.
men years eight
We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.
arbitrary demand facts
I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.