Quotes by : V.S. Naipaul

A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys....

...Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours.....

The chaos lies all within.

How we flounder when emotion overtakes us.

The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust....

Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.

A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.....

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything....

I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hiding,....

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