You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

Love is a greater mystery than death.

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

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

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.