Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.

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

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

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.

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

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.