I invented the historical spy novel.

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

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

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

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

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

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

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses.

Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way.

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.

I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.