“My religion is no way of knowing me.” — Jeet Thayil Quote

“My religion is no way of knowing me.”

“God has it in for the poets, that's obvious, but the Bombaywallahs hold a special place in his dispensation.”

“The world is on fire; time is a bomb.”

“E se eu te dissesse que ele é um deus?”

“It is not of my concern what other religions or beliefs there are in the world as long as they are helping others.”

“You will, Judas, my brother. God will give you the strength, as much as you lack, because it is necessary—it is necessary for me to be killed and for you to betray me. We two must save the world. Help me.”

“How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.”

“Will these millions of children, for generations upon future generations, know that some of their atoms cycled through this woman? [...] Will they feel what she felt in her life, will their memories have flickering strokes of her memories, will they recall that moment long ago when she stood by the window, guilt ridden and confused, and watched as the tadr bird circled the cistern? No, it is not possible. [...] But I will let them have their own brief glimpse of the Void, just at that moment they pass from living to dead, from animate to inanimate, from consciousness to that which has no consciousness. For a moment, they will understand infinity.”