Love is a greater mystery than death.

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.

What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are.

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

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.