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.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.