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

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

I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student I barely passed my exams and I barely bothered about books. It was sports all the time. I started reading and got involved in literature and writing. The few cases I handled gave me the material for my early short stories.

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

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

I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever.