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

- V. S. Naipaul

It is important not to trust people too much.

- V. S. Naipaul

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

- V. S. Naipaul

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

- V. S. Naipaul

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

- V. S. Naipaul

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

- V. S. Naipaul

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

- V. S. Naipaul

The world is always in movement.

- V. S. Naipaul