Quotes from Eric Van Lustbader

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

They will act in the name of a God they cannot hear, a God from whom they are more and more distant, and the result will be war, massacre, genocide, torture. In other words, the four faces of evil.

eerie patterns and lurid colors. Every few seconds

memorable entertainment package takes old-school Hollywood theory and modern electronic know-how." Borz

Extremism catches hold when all hope is gone, when a human being has been stripped of everything except hatred.

without facts, rumor, innuendo, intimation, and supposition have a way of conflating into myth.

The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.

history was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one's own life.

If one person believes a story, it becomes a truth—for him. That's why history is such a mare's nest: it's difficult to determine what happened as opposed to what people thought happened, wanted to happen, felt should have happened. The slant is everything

Because knowing where we come from allows us to know who we are. Our past is part of us. We can't outrun our past, no matter how hard we try.

Because doing the right thing is not the goal, doing the best thing is what you must strive for.

Acceptance of karma should not be confused with fatalism. We are all, to a great extent, masters of our own fate. But also we must learn to bow before the inevitable: this is the true meaning of acceptance and it is only this which brings the harmony without which life is not really worth living.

Well, no programmer could direct Karpov's initiative as a whole. The best ones are like idiot savants: they know their stuff backward and forward, but that's all they're good for. They couldn't direct themselves out of a paper bag." She pursed her lips. "So again, I have to ask, who is running the operation now?

Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence—a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.

I care about this woman deeply. I care what she thinks and what she does. I care what happened to her and what will happen to her. I want to keep her safe.

Someone had lit a kerosene lamp. By the inconstant light of its flickering flame, they stared at him out of emaciated faces with overlarge eyes, their bodies pale beneath tattered clothes. Once again Bourne's heart was rent. He wanted to save them all, but to save two he needed to leave the others behind. He'd never make it out with all of them in tow.

Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.

If you insist on reducing it to its basic elements, it's the sure and simple knowledge that there's something more out there, something greater than yourself, than mankind: a grand plan, a design that can't be comprehended by you or by any other human being, because it is numinous, it is God's design, something only He can fathom.

had less than twenty-four hours to do it. His musings were interrupted

The interior of the Zigana Mosque, a beehivelike geodesic dome composed of pointed arches of honey-colored stone, was based on al-Biruni's sacred geometry.

Designed in the neoclassical style by Marcel Dourgnon, the dusky-rose-colored Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, at Tahrir Square, was the first purpose-built museum edifice in the world. In 1902, the thousands of artifact treasures, spanning five thousand years of Egyptian dynastic history, were transferred there from the palace of Ismail Pasha in Giza, where they had been displayed for more than a decade. Bourne

Religion, like philosophy, is a living thing. If it isn't allowed to change with the times, if it is left to calcify, it will surely become irrelevant

tranquillity is only one aspect of the harmony of life. And harmony is what all people strive to achieve. Harmony is the basis of a clear mind, of a good and powerful karma.