Ashok K. Banker > Quotes

“Chocolate is a vegetable. Honest.”
― Ashok Banker

“Alone we are savages, together we are civilization”
― Ashok K. Banker, Vertigo

“Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.”
― Ashok Banker

“Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.”
― Ashok Banker

“You should always judge a book by its lovers.”
― Ashok Banker

“Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.”
― Ashok Banker

“With great power comes great reprehensibility.”
― Ashok Banker

“Advertising, Marketing, PR can get more people to buy your book. Only great writing can get more people to love it.”
― Ashok Banker

“I'm just one molecule of plastic in the composition of a little pin on a very large map”
― Ashok K. Banker, Vertigo

“Carpe Diem Ballus. Translation: Seize the Day by the Balls. Before it seizes your's. (Applies to women too.)”
― Ashok Banker

“human capacity for arrogance was only exceeded by its capacity for ignorance.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ramayana: The Complete Edition

“Better to be a man and respected like a king, than to be a king respected by no man,”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ten Kings: Dasarajna

“That was the difference between being a boy, a man, and a father and a chief: the boy could revel in sensual fantasies, the man wrestle and come to terms with deeds done and undone, while to a man with vital responsibilities and obligations, a new day meant new troubles.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ten Kings: Dasarajna

“a blind insistence on rationality could cloud one’s mind as easily as superstition.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ramayana: The Complete Edition

“the worst thing in life is not our own death or pain, but the pain and vulnerability of our loved ones, and of love itself. Death comes only once; a father’s concern waxes daily.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ten Kings: Dasarajna

“If it changes shape and structure, form and even content, it is because that is the nature of the story itself: it inspires the teller to bring fresh insights to each new version, bringing us ever closer to understanding Rama himself.  This is why it must be told, and retold, an infinite number of times.  By me.  By you.  By grandmothers to their grandchildren.  By people everywhere, regardless of their identity.  The first time I was told the Ramayana, it was on my grandfather’s knee. He was excessively fond of chewing tambaku paan and his breath was redolent of its aroma. Because I loved lions, he infused any number of lions in his Ramayana retellings—Rama fought lions, Sita fought them, I think even Manthara was cowed down by one at one point! My grandfather’s name, incidentally, was Ramchandra Banker. He died of throat cancer caused by his tobacco-chewing habit. But before his throat ceased working, he had passed on the tale to me.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ramayana: The Complete Edition

“Without accurate intelligence, no strategy could be effective.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ten Kings: Dasarajna

“How to do without, in order to grow within.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ramayana: The Complete Edition

“and grinned at them, as if luring them on. ”
― Ashok K. Banker, Fortress of Dwarka

“Without story, there is only the maddening chaos and cacophony of countless meaningless sounds. Story organizes, collects, collates, divides, structures, assigns a beginning, middle and end to things, sweeps facts into a coherent book of knowledge, and transcends knowledge itself to reveal the wisdom within.”
― Ashok K. Banker, The Seeds of War

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― Ashok K. Banker

“Let what will be, be.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Flute of Vrindavan

“It was the way of life. Babes cooed, children laughed, men smiled . . . then learned to smile without meaning it, and finally, death laughed at men and ended their humorless lives.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Upon a Burning Throne