He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.

The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.