Small things start us in new ways of thinking - V. S. Naipaul

In fact, the only person who seemed to examine the event with some astonishment was myself, who marvelled that such a turn in my life could occur so easily.

India is for me a difficult country. It isn’t my home and cannot be my home; and yet I cannot reject it or be indifferent to it; I cannot travel only for the sights. I am at once too close and too far.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas — and you have to work through it all.