"To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship."
— Robert Harris

"To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid."
— Robert Harris (Pompeii)

"Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.'"
— Robert Harris (Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome)

"By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question."
— Robert Harris (Enigma)

""The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.""
— Robert Harris

"Tak usah cemas, akan banyak waktu untuk tidur setelah kita mati."
— Robert Harris (Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome)

"You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election."
— Robert Harris (Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome)

"Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor."
— Robert Harris (Fatherland)

"The art of life is to deal with one's problems as they arise; rather than destoy your spirit by worrying about them too far in advance."
— Robert Harris

"Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start."
— Robert Harris (The Ghost)

"A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written."
— Robert Harris (The Ghost)

""That is better!" Cicero smiled at us. "The art of life is to deal with problems as the areise, rather than destroy one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.""
— Robert Harris (Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome)