Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the city was awash with guns, and crime, and racketeering, and all sorts of hangovers from a very difficult time in French history. So it's an interesting time to be a policeman.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.