She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.
Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card.
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.
And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.
Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.
The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks or something tells it that the remembering can be handled.
Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.
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 are right. As one grows older, this is easier still.
Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it.
Learn always but never appear to be learning.
There was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons!
He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.
A corruption of intentions.
You appear to be a mass of contradictions, Dr Washburn said. There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you...
The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed.
The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.
Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.
Better the devil you can live with than one you don't know.