V. S. Naipaul

How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.

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

Africa has no future.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

America stands for the land of opportunity.