Career Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. - V. S. Naipaul
London World I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. - V. S. Naipaul
Thinking Father Nothing People We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. - V. S. Naipaul
Men Nothing World The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. - V. S. Naipaul
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. - Ulysses S. Grant
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. - Julien Benda
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. - Maimonides