And he wanted to be famous. I had nothing to say, but I had to learn how to write. I had nothing else to do. No other hope, no other opening. It's hard to think of a more interesting age or a better age.
More people now have possibilities, more people now feel themselves to be men.
Perhaps my gloom has something to do with how my brain sits in my head. After he finishes his book on Islam, Mr. Naipaul says, he wants to take a rest. I've probably been fighting the Monkey side of my nature.