I Don't Inflict Horrors On Readers.

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.

My Novels Are About The European Reality, Not About Chases. You Want Chases, Get Somebody Else's Books.

I Don't Really Write Plots. I Use History As The Engine That Drives Everything.

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.