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

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

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

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.

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.