Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.