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

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

I invented the historical spy novel.

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

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

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

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.