Nick

“What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?”
― Ruskin Bond, Roads to Mussoorie

“I never cease to wonder at the tenacity of water - its ability to make its way through various strata of rock,zigzagging,back-tracking, finding space, cunningly discovering faults and fissures in the mountain, and sometimes traveling underground for great distances before emerging into the open. Of course, there's no stopping water. For no matter how tiny that little tickle, it has to go somewhere.”
― Ruskin Bond

“For the most time I've followed instinct rather than intelligence, and this has resulted in a modicum of happiness.”
― Ruskin Bond

“The other day a young Internet surfer asked me why I preferred using a pencil instead of a computer. The principal reason, I told him, was that I liked chewing on the end of my pencil. A nasty habit, but it helps me concentrate. And I find it extremely difficult to chew on a computer.”
― Ruskin Bond, Landour Days: A Writer's Journal