Dan Brown Quotes

Just because we don't understand why they'd cover up something doesn't mean they aren't," Bobby said, and we both turned to look at him. "Now you just sound paranoid," I said. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you," Bobby said with an expression so serious that I couldn't help but laugh.

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

Donald Trump always is looking for some conspiracy.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

You don’t have to be a paranoid to question the official explanation of things, although it helps …. There will always be more dots to connect.

You’d think that he would call and encourage me after my debate before the send largest audience. Something’s going on there. I always figure it out. Something very sinister is going on.

I do not believe in conspiracy theories.

I don't trust anybody.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!