Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.

Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army.

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