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.

I read very little contemporary anything.

I'm not really a mass market writer.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

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

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said