Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is…

“On the balcony of our small flat in a city of small flats.”

— Jerry Pinto

“We began our hospital visits: one day Susan, one day me, everyday The Big Hoom. On one of these visits, she told me about…

— Jerry Pinto

“Love is never enough. Madness is enough. It is complete, sufficient unto itself.”

— Jerry Pinto

“Once I was told that living with me would mean being trapped and slowly asphyxiated.”

— Jerry Pinto

“I know I want to marry you. But I wish we were the first to ever get married. I cannot help feeling that the…

— Jerry Pinto

“Marriage is all right. At least the person you’re having a go at is an adult. But motherhood… You’re given something totally dependent, totally…

— Jerry Pinto

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

— Jerry Pinto

“That’s what comes of this celibacy business. We confess to men who’ve never had to worry about a family. Naturally, it’s a huge sin…

— Jerry Pinto

“In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world…

— Jerry Pinto

I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were…

— Jerry Pinto

A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?

— Jerry Pinto

“Love is never enough. Madness is enough. It is complete, sufficient unto itself. You can only stand outside it as a woman might stand…

— Jerry Pinto

“I wanted to understand her predicament because I was her son and I loved her with a helpless corroded love.”

— Jerry Pinto

“Fight your genes.' The Big Hoom said to us once, to Susan and me. He did not explain. He did not know how to.…

— Jerry Pinto

“Love is a hollow word which seems at home in song lyrics and greeting cards, until you fall in love and discover it’s disconcerting…

— Jerry Pinto