Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!

My mother did what many men do. She left.

‎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.

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

The evil always comes from details.

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.