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

I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.

I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger and I think that's largely [Mahatma] Gandhi's influence. When you lose your temper, you've lost your cause.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

I did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party.