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 discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

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

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.

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

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.

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