The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.