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.

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

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

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.

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 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.