The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!