Quotes from Dan Brown

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

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.

If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

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

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.

...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

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.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.