Robert Ludlum Quotations

Life is extremely complicated. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior and alternatives of that behavior.

That gentleman will call the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I think they're scared of him. They're merely professional killers; he's in advertising!

A large part of this story took place a while back. And quite a bit of it tomorrow. Such is the poetic license of liturgical drama.

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

Life is extremely complicated.

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

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

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

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

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

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Learn always but never appear to be learning.

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

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.

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

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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