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.

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

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.

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

As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

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

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