Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.

Nothing in Christianity is original.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.