Jeet Thayil

“Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that’s well knownand it’s obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don’tseparate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separatetheir human and dog natures.”

“My religion is no way of knowing me.”

“The world is on fire time is a bomb.Ten thousand years are not enoughWhen so much remains to be done”

“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 thing.”

“Isn't it incredible?, I said.There was nothing incredible about it, she said.I thought it was so because I spoke English, because I read books, and because my parents paid for my education and my upkeep. For me everything was surprising, the world was full of wonder, the most random idiotic occurrence was incredible because my luck made it so. For people like her, for the poor, the only incredible thing in the whole world was money and the mysterious ways in which it worked.”