“I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.”
V.S. Naipaul kniha Half a Life
Half a Life (2001)
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, T. C., známejší ako V. S. Naipaul, bol britský spisovateľ románov hindského pôvodu a indo-trinidadskej etnickej príslušnosti. Wikipedia

“I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.”
V.S. Naipaul kniha Half a Life
Half a Life (2001)
“One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.”
As quoted in "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, The New York Times, (24 April 1994)
“Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.”
As quoted in "Wanderer of Endless Curiosity" by R. Z. Sheppard in Time magazine (10 July 1989) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,958134,00.html
V.S. Naipaul kniha India: A Wounded Civilization
India: A Wounded Civilization (1977)