Gregory David Roberts

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

"There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life."

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

"In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky."