Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living.

I've had very little sex. I like my Scotch, but I've never been drunk.

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.