My favorite part (Foucault's Pendulum is a fun book too): INTERVIEWER: Have you read The Da Vinci Code? ECO: Yes, I am guilty of that too. INTERVIEWER: That

My favorite part (Foucault's Pendulum is a fun book too): INTERVIEWER: Have you read The Da Vinci Code? ECO: Yes, I am guilty of that too. INTERVIEWER: That novel seems like a bizarre little offshoot of Foucault’s Pendulum. ECO: The author, Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault’s Pendulum! I invented him....I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.