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.

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

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

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'm not really a mass market writer.

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

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