I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in The Leopard, in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. Phantom has less blood.

A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.

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.

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.