Alan Furst Failed Quotations

I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be.

I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.