“In India everything has a use and a value.”

“Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.”

“In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.”

“Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.”

“The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.”

“My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.”

“Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.”