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.

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

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.

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

‎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.

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

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