Shehan Karunatilaka Quotes

If a liar tells you he is lying, is he telling the truth.

There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter.

Jonny has a theory that South Africa are doomed to choke in every major tournament for the next fifty years as payment for apartheid. He also believes that England will spend centuries working off their colonial sins by performing miserably at sport. I then ask him why Australia, who wiped out generations of Aborigines, win everything in every sport, and he shuts up.

Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters.

Throughout my life, even when times were tough, I never stopped buying books. Or, come to think of it, booze. My library is dusty and well stocked. My liver is well worn.