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.

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.

And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

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

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

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