... Understanding as had the ancients that angels and demons were identical- interchangeable archetypes-all a matter of polarity: the guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer...

— Dan Brown

Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage ... an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.

— Dan Brown

Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

— Dan Brown

We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. Furthermore, we kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.

— Dan Brown

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

— Dan Brown

We were at sixty thousand feet. You’re thirty percent lighter up there.

— Dan Brown

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

— Dan Brown

When his brain died, all the memories held in his gray matter, along with all the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

— Dan Brown

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

— Dan Brown

Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.

— Dan Brown