I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I've been a free man.

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.