I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

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

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.

There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

You can be the seventh scorer or the first scorer, just be your best version.

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.

I do think that there's very little coverage of a lot of the people on Hillary Clinton's side that aren't - well, let's just start with Hillary Clinton, herself who lies for a living.

It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.

Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.