Khushwant Singh Messages

I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.

I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

I was unhappy with the jobs I did after law. I got into the diplomatic service. There again I had really little to do.

I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

I've had very little sex. I like my Scotch, but I've never been drunk.

I did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party.

But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.