Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

The evil always comes from details.

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.

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

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.

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

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music