Magic, the trick that connects the ordinary to the impossible, was the invisible river that ran through every street and beating heart in Bombay in those years, and nothing, from the postal service to...
MEN WAGE WARS for profit and principle, but they fight them for land and women.
MEN WAGE WARS for profit and principle, but they fight them for land and women. Sooner or later, the other causes and compelling reasons drown in blood and lose their meaning. Sooner or later, death a...
Like many toilets in Goa, it was nothing more than a smooth, steep slope behind the squatting keyhole. Waste matter rolled down the slope to a narrow lane. Wild, hairy, black Goan pigs roamed the lane...
La sofferenza non è necessariamente un segno di debolezza; con uno sforzo di volontà è possibile sopportarla: la forza di volontà nasce da un severo autocontrollo, che è di per sè una forma di soffere...
Karma’s a hammer, not a feather
It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.
Instinct chooses her own children.
If you get paid in money, somebody, somewhere, is suffering for it.
If reputations were votes, we’d be presidents of somewhere.
I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare from heart to heart, tho...
He’d been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I’d always
Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.
Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.
But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.
But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.
But I was alone, and for two reasons: The mafia was theirs, not mine. For them, the organisation always came first. But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia; to the brothers, not the brotherhood. I w...
But I always connected to the people and the purity of their faith, rather than the religious code they followed.
Bad cops are bad priests', she said. 'All confession, and no absolution.
A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian...