Jeet Thayil Quotes

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

My religion is no way of knowing me.

We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done

Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!”

The world is on fire time is a bomb.Ten thousand years are not enoughWhen so much remains to be done

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did, and as was the case with all addicts, gratification was the important thing.