No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed.

You’ll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.

For all the secret societies lunatics out there who think they know anything, why don’t you chill..We’re ALL guests on Earth, not Management.

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by...

The intersection of pork and man was circumscribed with vagueness. Until now sausage was a mysterious world: the fenced-in landscapes of strange, exotic muds, the cloak-and-dagger butchers that veiled their conversations in Old French, the...

Bursar? Yes, Archchancellor? You ain’t a member of some secret society or somethin’, are you? Me? No, Archchancellor. Then it’d be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head.

Professor Langdon,’ called a young man with curly hair in the back row, ‘if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?”Well, if you were to...

There is nothing more enjoyable than being a member of an enlightened group of people that meets in complete darkness in complete secrecy. I have no idea why the other members joined, when they joined,...

Me and a group of friends meeting in private to bond and have fun may appear to outsiders as a shadowy secret society plotting to take over the world. But that’s utter nonsense. That group...

He handed me something done up in paper. ‘Your mask,’ he said. ‘Don’t put it on until we get past the city-limits.’ It was a frightening-looking thing when I did so. It was not a...

England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call on… the truth of the whole...