I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

It is said "Barking dogs seldom bite".......Unfortunately many dogs do not know this proverb!

Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.

Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

You talked to me, but you didn’t. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.

A joke is necessary at this time.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.