Has wealth changed you?

Dan Brown, when asked this question by an interviewer following his meteoric success with his books.

No. I still get up at 4a.m. to write. And every morning I face a blank page. The characters don't care that I've made money. I have the same friends that I had before, and I'm married to the same wonderful woman. I drive a four year-old Lexus. I don't think about money. I have it, but I'm not drawn to fancy clothes, or yachts, or fancy cars.

Organized Religion

Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage.. An assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.
- Robert Langdon in Angels and Demons