“In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to...” — V. S. Naipaul Quote

“In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.”

“An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.”

“One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.”

“It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.”

“They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.”

“The first time I saw my father, he was chained. Gone was the mirage of the invincible man, the man who would protect me once I found him. At the age of 12, I finally saw my father - in an orange jumpsuit, looking weak and vulnerable.”