The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.

The world is always in movement.

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.