Small things start us in new ways of thinking

It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.

I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

Africa has no future.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.