My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.

— Ashwin Sanghi

My life is ruled by four W’s: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whiskey. Not necessarily in that order.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.

— Ashwin Sanghi

My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But pray, please do explain who created the singularity?

— Ashwin Sanghi

Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahma. There’s the ancient connection right there.

— Ashwin Sanghi