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

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

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.

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

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

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