Dan Brown

“The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold”

“Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.”

“I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.”

“Our religions are much more similar than they are different.”

“Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.”

“I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.”

“Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.”

“We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.”

“I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.”

“Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?”

“He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say.”

“Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.”

“I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.”

“Since the beginning of time, the ignorant have always screamed the loudest...They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.”

“It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'”

“If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he's afraid to start a fire.”

“Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.”

“I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.”

“For centuries the church has stood by while science picked away at religion bit by bit. Debunking miracles. Training the mind to overcome the heart. Condemning religion as the opiate of the masses. They denounce God as a hallucination - a delusional crutch for those too weak to accept that life is meaningless. I could not stand by while science presumed to harness the power of God himself! Proof, you say? Yes, proof of science's ignorance! What is wrong with the admission that something exists beyond our understanding? The day science substantiates God in a lab is the day people stop needing faith!”

“Learning the truth has become my life's love.”