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.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

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

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

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