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

- Jeet Thayil

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…

- Jeet Thayil

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,…

- Jeet Thayil

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…

- Jeet Thayil

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

- Jeet Thayil

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

- Jeet Thayil

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

- Jeet Thayil

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

- Jeet Thayil

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…

- Jeet Thayil