...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.

- Ruskin Bond

People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity.Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.

- Ruskin Bond, The Best of Ruskin Bond

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

- Ruskin Bond

The rain swirls over the trees and roofs of the town, and the parched earth soaks it up, exuding a fragrance that comes only once in a year, the fragrance of quenched earth, the most exhilarating of all smells.

- Ruskin Bond, Delhi Is Not Far

For nature does things in good order: And birds and butterflies recognizeNo man-made border

- Ruskin Bond

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees we had placed there. The trees had multiplied! They were moving. In one small corner of the world, Grandfather's dream was coming true and the trees were moving again.

- Ruskin Bond, Rusty, the Boy from the Hills

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

- Ruskin Bond

Everyone says she’s mad.’‘How do they know?’ I asked.‘Because she’s different from other people, I suppose.’‘Is that being mad?’‘No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.

- Ruskin Bond, The Best of Ruskin Bond

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

- Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life

I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.

- Ruskin Bond, The Room on the Roof