I'm not really a mass market writer.

Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

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

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.