6 Quotes by Shehan Karunatilaka

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

I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.

How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps.

I have no idea what the song is about, but at least it does not sound like furniture falling down stairs.

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.

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