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.

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

The evil always comes from details.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.