26 Quotes by Manil Suri

Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.

Endings need to be lived, they cannot be ordained.

Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.

To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit.

I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English).

This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.

They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to Islam, their joint 1,300-page doorstopper, spent twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover alone. The fact that they remained practicing Muslims (albeit the liberal, wine-guzzling kind) put their message in high international demand.