I will say I am the sum of my books.

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

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.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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.

The world is always in movement.