List of Rohinton Mistry Quotes

Traffic In The Streets Of Bombay Is Chaotic At Best. Riding A Bicycle Is A Dangerous Occupation. However, There Are Hundreds Of Them On The Streets Competing With The Cars And Buses And Lorries Because It Is The Poor Man's Mode Of Transport.

Walk, First, Through The Fire, Then Philosophize.

Birth And Death - What Could Be More Monstrous Than That? We Like To Deceive Ourselves And Call It Wondrous And Beautiful And Majestic, But It's Freakish, Let's Face It.

There Was No Such Thing As Perfect Privacy, Life Was A Perpetual Concert-hall Recital With A Captive Audience.

He Who Spits Paan At The Ceiling Only Blinds Himself.

Hahnji, Mister, You Must Be Patient. Before You Can Name That Corner, Our Future Must Become Past.

Lately You Are Brooding Too Much About Rights. Give Up This Dangerous Habit.

I Met My Wife When We Were Both 19 Or 20, At A Music School Where She Was Taking Voice And Piano Lessons And I Was Doing Classes In Music Theory And Composition.

There Didn't Seem To Her Any Harm In It, And The Make-believe Was So Comforting.

The Carnage Upon The Chessboard Of Life, Left Wounded Humans In Its Wake

All Fiction Relies On The Real World In The Sense That We All Take In The World Through Our Five Senses And We Accumulate Details, Consciously Or Subconsciously. This Accumulation Of Detail Can Be Drawn On When You Write Fiction.

Zoroastrianism Is About The Opposition Of Good And Evil. For The Triumph Of Good, We Have To Make A Choice. We Can Enlist On The Side Of Good By Prospering, Making Money And Using Our Wealth To Help Others.