Dan Brown Quotes

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

The old world was good guys and bad guys. The new world is gray guys.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

There are the good and bad and every morrally ambiguous shade in between.

One of the things that I've always appreciated about the 'X-Men' style of storytelling versus other Marvel stories is how fluid the line between good and bad and right and wrong is.

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.