I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

You decide for yourself when it will hurt.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

I write about families. That is who we are.

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

But that's life. That's what you learn from when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

To greet the present is to part with the past and future.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Find the grain of truth in criticism - chew it and swallow it.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.

Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.