Tortured by everybody, one thinks it is better to get married – at least these people will stop torturing. But you are wrong: once you get married they start asking, “When is the child coming?”

Now, this is a very difficult problem. It is not in your hands: the child may come, may not come – and will come in its own time. But the people will harass you that a childless life…a home is not a home without a child. It is true – because a home seems to be a silent temple without a child; with a child, the home seems to be a madhouse! And with many children, troubles go on multiplying.

I am sitting, silent in my room my whole life. I am not bothering anybody, I have never asked anybody, “Why are you not married, why have you not produced a child?” Because I don’t think that it is civilized to ask such questions, such queries; it is interfering in somebody’s freedom.

In my university, every professor…and I had to go to many colleges, because I was being expelled from this college, from that college. My expulsion was absolutely necessary. And I don’t blame them, the fault was always mine, but my faults were so innocent that they felt, “This is true that you have not committed any crime, but your presence is disturbing.”

I said, “This is very difficult. If I am sitting alone, then my aloneness is disturbing to my family – ‘Why you are sitting alone?’ Are these questions to be asked?”

I never liked buttons on my shirt – now this was the trouble. In one college, one professor was adamant that “If you don’t put buttons on your shirt I will not allow you in the class.”

I said, “This won’t do.”

He said, “What do you mean?”

I said, “You will have to physically prevent me.” He said, “You want to fight with me?”

I said, “Yes.”

The professor said, “Have you come here to study or to harass me?”

I said, “Study can be done later on – fight first! And I will sit in the class without buttons, because there is no law of the university that tells you that you have to use buttons. You should think yourself fortunate that I am wearing the shirt! Even that cannot be prevented constitutionally.”

He said, “What do you mean?”

I said, “It is clear – I can even come naked.”

He said, “This is a very difficult thing. It is better you come without buttons, because if you come naked it will create trouble. There are girls and there are other students…”

I said, “If next time you even mention my buttons I am going to drop the clothes, then and there.”

He said, “No, don’t do that! You can sit down.”