“Gurus Enable you to see new things. The trouble with Gurus is that you can rarely see beyond them.”

“Let nobody fool you, most couples are conjoined on earth. The mismatches, now they are a different story. They are made in heaven”

“No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.”

“If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands,for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty”

“Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.”

“Biju knew he probably wouldn’t see him again. This was what happened, he had learned by now. You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway, then they vanished again. Adresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore./The Inheritance of Loss”

“You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk”