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.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened.

He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.