We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

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

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

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.

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

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.

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!