Live today, for tomorrow we die.

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

I don't inflict horrors on readers.

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

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.

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.

If you're a writer, you're always working.