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

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

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

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

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

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

‎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.