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.

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

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.