When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be dea….

Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat..

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion..

I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student I barely passed my exams and I bare….

I did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party..

I admit I have no forgiveness. If anyone is ever rude to me, however much they may try to make up, I can't bring myself to re-establish the old [conn….

I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan..

I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth..

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have l….

I was under police security for 15 years because I was on their hit-list. I opposed Khalistan because I thought it would be suicide for the Sikh comm….

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive lan….

I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger and I think that's largely [Mahatma] Gandh….