Jeet Thayil said this quote

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

~ 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 thing.

~ 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.

~ Jeet Thayil

How will the ships navigatewithout stars? And then he remembered that the stars weredead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted,was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate,unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did.

~ Jeet Thayil