I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.

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

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

Love is a greater mystery than death.

Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.

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

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.