In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

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.