Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

“he'd long ago accepted the fact that berlin more than suspected him. in a way it was his protection; he'd by no…

— Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

“Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie;…

— Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

“Two people were not one,”

— Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be…

— Robert Ludlum

“I loathe him. He stands for everything I hate in Washington. The right schools, houses in Georgetown, farms in Virginia, quiet meetings…

— Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

“You're on tenth base, I can't find you.”

— Robert Ludlum

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

— Robert Ludlum

“If your IQ was one point lower, you'd be a plant,' was Steve's only comment.”

— Robert Ludlum

“The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be…

— Robert Ludlum

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries…

— Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

“Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them.”

— Robert Ludlum

“If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott. I have in my head a…

— Robert Ludlum

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

— Robert Ludlum

“She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.”

— Robert Ludlum