Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

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.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.