I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

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

[Sex] is of real interest to every human being and so why gloss over it, and it's fun, it's interesting, it has so many dimensions.

I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.