Robert Ludlum quotes:

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles

Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

Credo quia absurdum "? I believe because it is absurd.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!

Learn always but never appear to be learning.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

Life is extremely complicated.

Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)

...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.