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.

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

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

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

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

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

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.