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.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

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.

I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.

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.

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