Mike

“Without a good woman, a man like you - men like you and me - we're just asking for trouble, yaar.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I sat alone, on a boulder that was larger and flatter than most, and I smoked a cigarette. I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The work had fallen to me, it seemed, because I knew a little more than the next man, and I was willing to do it.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“It's a very sad thing, to be in no hurry, and I would not be so free in admitting it, if I were you,' he said, still staring at the bottle. When he wasn't smiling his face looked flabby, slack, and pallid grey. He was unwell, but it was the kind of unwell you have to work at. 'We have saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram