[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..

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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….