I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

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

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason.