Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.

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.

What really matters is what you believe.

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

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

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.