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.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

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

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

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