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 did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party.

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 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 haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

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

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