Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.

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

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

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