Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music