I couldn't give a damn, [he said]. Writing is where I succeeded. I was a flop in everything else. - Khushwant Singh

I don't think so. I don't think any editor can make a difference to a daily paper because more than half, even three quarters is wire material and from correspondents in different places all over the country. And foreign news. And really the only thing the editor has is writing the editorials.

I am trying hardest to see no one, because I find it tiresome. I have people descending on me and flattering me. I fall for flattery.

When I was in England as a student, socialism was much talked about among us. We read and discussed Bertrand Russell and attended lectures by Harold J. Laski. I have not retained many socialistic ideas, but I am still an agnostic.