Writers should provoke disagreement.

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 writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

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

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.

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