One Is What One Has The Nerve

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

It Takes Me Three Months Of Research And Nine Months Of Work To Produce A Book. When I Start Writing, I Do Two Pages A Day; If I'm Gonna Do 320, That's 160 Days.

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.

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.