Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.