That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

- Vikas Swarup

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

- Vikas Swarup

The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if …

- Vikas Swarup

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

- Vikas Swarup

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

- Vikas Swarup

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an e…

- Vikas Swarup

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

- Vikas Swarup

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

- Vikas Swarup

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

- Vikas Swarup