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.

The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.

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

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.

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

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.

Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.