Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what…

- Alan Furst

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

- Alan Furst

Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend al…

- Alan Furst

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 t…

- Alan Furst

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

- Alan Furst

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

- Alan Furst

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

- Alan Furst

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

- Alan Furst

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

- Alan Furst