To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.

The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets updates from UFOlogists, graphologists, scientologists, paranoiacs, and every sort of conspiracy theorist.

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

Salander was afraid of no-one and nothing. She realized that she lacked the necessary imagination - and that was evidence enough that there was something wrong with her brain.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.