Karan Mahajan Quotes

During these years in the small-talk wilderness, I also wondered why Americans valued friendliness with commerce so much. Was handing over cash the sacred rite of American capitalism—and of American life? On a day that I don’t spend money in America, I feel oddly depressed. It’s my main form of social interaction—as it is for millions of Americans who live alone or away from their families.

Silence is the small man’s only defense.

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

No action is safe from meaning.

Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.

Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.

To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.

The roots of shame run deep.