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.

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

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

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.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

Love is a greater mystery than death.