My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

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

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.