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.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

The world is always in movement.

And 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