• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

    V. S. Naipaul: I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
    "A home for Mr Naipaul". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.