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.

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!

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.

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.