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

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

I was unhappy with the jobs I did after law. I got into the diplomatic service. There again I had really little to do.

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 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.

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 don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.