---
title: "2 Bombay Quotes By Jeet Thayil"
description: "2 Bombay quotes by Jeet Thayil. Plus more from Jeet Thayil and more Bombay sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/jeet-thayil-21715_bombay_i-found-bombay-and-opium-the-drug-and-th_1136042.jpg"
---

> [I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/i-found-bombay-and-opium-the-drug-and-the-city-the-city-of-opium-and/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/jeet-thayil-21715_bombay_i-found-bombay-and-opium-the-drug-and-th_1136042.jpg)

> [All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/all-i-did-was-write-it-down-one-word-after-the-other-beginning-and/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d2/jeet-thayil-21715_beginnings-and-endin_all-i-did-was-write-it-down-one-word-aft_1321988.jpg)

## Other authors on Bombay

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-salman-rushdie-82434.jpg) Salman Rushdie 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bombay/salman-rushdie/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gregory-david-roberts-39463.jpg) Gregory David Roberts 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bombay/gregory-david-roberts/)

## More by Jeet Thayil

> [Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/come-on-a-25-page-digression-on-god-you-can-t-have-that-kind-of-thing/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [“You die. You get old and die. Your anger curdles, your grief dries, your talent fades on the page. Your cells metastasise into an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/you-die-you-get-old-and-die-your-anger-curdles-your-grief-dries-your/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/then-there-are-the-addicts-the-hunger-addicts-the-rage-addicts-the/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [“The more he drank the nicer he became; wine revealed his charity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/the-more-he-drank-the-nicer-he-became-wine-revealed-his-charity/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [“Those who say time heals and death resolves are speaking falsely or thoughtlessly or without the experience of loss.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/those-who-say-time-heals-and-death-resolves-are-speaking-falsely-or/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/he-read-because-it-gave-him-instant-gratification-in-a-way-nothing/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [“To want is to wait, as I do in the place I know, my breathing loud and single as the room, its smell of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/to-want-is-to-wait-as-i-do-in-the-place-i-know-my-breathing-loud-and/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/because-now-there-s-time-enough-not-to-hurry-to-light-the-lamp-and/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [“There’s been some discussion as to why God created the world. Let me clear it up. He made the world because that’s what he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/there-s-been-some-discussion-as-to-why-god-created-the-world-let-me/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [“In the sky was a sliver of moon. What kind of moon? A moon like a clipped fingernail, like a smudge of powdered sugar,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/in-the-sky-was-a-sliver-of-moon-what-kind-of-moon-a-moon-like-a/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/i-found-bombay-and-opium-the-drug-and-the-city-the-city-of-opium-and/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/all-i-did-was-write-it-down-one-word-after-the-other-beginning-and/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [My religion is no way of knowing me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/my-religion-is-no-way-of-knowing-me/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [“If you want a moral, here it is: what god giveth, he taketh away. In this story art is god. And if god is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/if-you-want-a-moral-here-it-is-what-god-giveth-he-taketh-away-in-this/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

> [“In certain ways the lives of the poets and the lives of the saints are similar: the solitary travails, the epiphanic awakening and early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/in-certain-ways-the-lives-of-the-poets-and-the-lives-of-the-saints/)

[Jeet Thayil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeet-thayil/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bombay/jeet-thayil/#itemlist",
            "name": "2 Bombay Quotes By Jeet Thayil",
            "numberOfItems": 2,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Jeet Thayil"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/i-found-bombay-and-opium-the-drug-and-the-city-the-city-of-opium-and/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/jeet-thayil-21715_bombay_i-found-bombay-and-opium-the-drug-and-th_1136042.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/jeet-thayil-21715_bombay_i-found-bombay-and-opium-the-drug-and-th_1136042.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/jeet-thayil-21715_bombay_i-found-bombay-and-opium-the-drug-and-th_1136042.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay” — Jeet Thayil",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Jeet Thayil"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeet-thayil/all-i-did-was-write-it-down-one-word-after-the-other-beginning-and/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d2/jeet-thayil-21715_beginnings-and-endin_all-i-did-was-write-it-down-one-word-aft_1321988.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d2/jeet-thayil-21715_beginnings-and-endin_all-i-did-was-write-it-down-one-word-aft_1321988.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d2/jeet-thayil-21715_beginnings-and-endin_all-i-did-was-write-it-down-one-word-aft_1321988.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.” — Jeet Thayil",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bombay/jeet-thayil/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bombay/jeet-thayil/",
            "name": "Bombay Quotes by Jeet Thayil",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bombay/jeet-thayil/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/jeet-thayil-21715_bombay_i-found-bombay-and-opium-the-drug-and-th_1136042.jpg"
            },
            "description": "2 Bombay quotes by Jeet Thayil. Plus more from Jeet Thayil and more Bombay sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bombay/jeet-thayil/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bombay/jeet-thayil/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Bombay",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bombay/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Jeet Thayil",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bombay/jeet-thayil/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```