S. Gregory Quotes
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.
A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.
Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
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.
Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.
The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent.
I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.
She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.
I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.
Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.
A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.
The world was floods above and fire below
When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.
The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.