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

But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

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

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.

I was under police security for 15 years because I was on their hit-list. I opposed Khalistan because I thought it would be suicide for the Sikh community to demand a separate state, and they heard me because they knew I was one of them. I think I turned round at least the intelligent Sikh's point of view and that gave me enormous satisfaction.