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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Learn always but never appear to be learning.