My favourite passage from the Steven Pinker column:

Every household should have a bible and what better way to look up favourite passages quickly than on your computer system.

He watched our countenances intently while reading them, continually stepping in, and pointing out to us his favourite passages.

But, curiously enough, you condemn two of my favourite passages, one of which is J. W. Ferrier's favourite of the whole.

If we ask children or students to recite their favourite passage or line from the Bible, we tend to get some pretty blank looks.

Over the next few months we shall we asking more writers about their favourite passage and posting them at telegraph.co.uk/books - where you can add your own suggestions.

'They shall perish,' he thundered with feeling, rehearsing his favourite passage.

Upon his death, his favourite passage of Psalm 23 was used in his funeral mass.

Therefore they had to be divided into parts, and each rhapsode had to take his assigned part (otherwise they would have chosen favourite or prize passages).