We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal

It is important not to trust people too much.

A cat only has itself.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

Africa has no future.

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