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

My religion is no way of knowing me..

How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted,….

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

Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, t….

Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a moment to dream of a great and broken city….

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

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

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

Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not t….