This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

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

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

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.