I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.

People don't want the truth, ' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.

It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.

Capitalism needs war.

If you do it in the bookies, it's a bet. . . . If you pay some 23-year-old in an Armani suit two hundred grand to go to the window for you, it's a derivative.

I do not think my life would make a very interesting book, ' I say. 'I feel I can speak with a certain amount of authority here.

I guess time doesn't flow in order, does it - A, B, C, D? It just sort of goes where it feels like going.

I am beginning to worry that my speech is becoming a rather incomprehensible mixture of a Victorian woman, an Australian Beach Bum and a Laddish city boy

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!

One thing you have to have when you act is energy.