Young men Quotes by Jeet Thayil

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Jeet Thayil

“The more he drank the nicer he became; wine revealed his charity.”

— Jeet Thayil

“Those who say time heals and death resolves are speaking falsely or thoughtlessly or without the experience of loss.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Jeet Thayil

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

— Jeet Thayil

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

— Jeet Thayil