When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars..

That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear th….

I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction..

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourse….

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy..

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you..

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up..

Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by….

I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time..

Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets….

I've had very little sex. I like my Scotch, but I've never been drunk..

[Sex] is of real interest to every human being and so why gloss over it, and it's fun, it's interesting, it has so many dimensions..

I was unhappy with the jobs I did after law. I got into the diplomatic service. There again I had really little to do..

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis..

If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs ov….

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist]..

I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out..

I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist..

I still think that the point of reference for every Indian when he is in doubt on any political or social issue is to say, "What would [Mahatma] Gand….

But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was….

I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing..