The Writer Is All Alone.

Life Doesn't Have A Neat Beginning And A Tidy End; Life Is Always Going On. You Should Begin In The Middle And End In The Middle, And It Should Be All There.

In Trinidad, Where As New Arrivals We Were A Disadvantaged Community, That Excluding Idea Was A Kind Of Protection; It Enabled Us - For The Time Being, And Only For The Time Being - To Live In Our Own Way And According To Our Own Rules, To Live In Our Own Fading India.

I Still Think It's Really Quite Wonderful When I Read A Sentence Of Mine And It Has That Quality Of Lastingness.

I Always Knew Who I Was And Where I Had Come From. I Was Not Looking For A Home In Other People's Lands.

I Had No Student Friends To Talk To About Literature. My Tutor Was A Really Nice Man, Very Charming - But He Had No Literary Judgment.