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V S Naipaul quotes

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

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The world is always in movement.

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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

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