People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

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

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

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.

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.

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.

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.