I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.

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.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.