Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.

. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other people — it just wouldn’t suit them.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

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.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.