Africa has no future.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

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

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

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.