We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

The followers must feel besieged.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC

Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.