Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

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.

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

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.