'Basic truth about the colonies, Heaslop. Any time there's trouble, you can put it down to books. Too many of the wrong ideas getting into the heads of the wrong sorts of people. If ever the Empire comes to ruin, Heaslop, mark my words, the British publisher will be to blame.' [16]

'The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.' [16]

'The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination.' [16]

'It was as if he had heard what I wanted,' she said. But a skilled magician can do that, and it would be wrong to see Sai Baba as a conjurer. He has channeled …

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.