'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.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean, in her body. And not only this. Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, almost exactly like the water from the sea is salty. We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

My life is studded with a series of coincidences.