It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

I'm not really a mass market writer.

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

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

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

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.