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.
V. S. NaipaulAnd it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over
V. S. NaipaulHome is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
V. S. NaipaulI 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.
V. S. Naipaul