Quotes from Dan Brown

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

The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.

Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

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

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

I have great admiration for the fact-checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact-checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.

Religion has always persecuted science.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.

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.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

Life is filled with difficult decisions, he thought. And winners are those who make them.

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.

There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.

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

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's Technology

Time is a river, and books are boats.