“I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.”

“-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it”

“Faith is simply whatever is real to us.”

“My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.”