Live Today, For Tomorrow We Die.

One Is What One Has The Nerve To Pretend To Be.

I Don't Just Want My Books To Be About The '30s And '40s. I Want Them To Read As If They Had Been Written Then. I Think Of Them As '40s Novels, Written In The Conservative Narrative Past.

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.

I'm Basically An Upper West Side Jewish Writer.

The Best Paris I Know Now Is In My Head.