I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

Religion has always persecuted science.

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.

Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?

For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.