You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

You must do what you want.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.