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.

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

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

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.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.