Spaceships

“Whenever you’re in a stress situation yourself—and there’s time, of course—do exactly as you would do when you project yourself into one you’re observing. Let your mind fall free, let whatever thoughts and images that surface come cleanly. Try not to exercise any mental discipline. Be a sponge; concentrate on everything and nothing. Specifics may come to you, certain repressed conduits electrically prodded into functioning.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity

“There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity

“emotional stress that produced stagnate hysteria and mental aphasia, conditions which also resulted in partial or total loss of memory. Amnesia.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity

“the inequality of values is constant. Gold simply is not brass or iron;”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity