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.

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.

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.

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

Now your burnt ashes float to mingle with others And as I wait for another day I keep singing another song How did I go astray!

Where's your will to be weird?

The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

You have to let the people vote when it comes to a new constitution.

I have a sense of this man [Donald Trump]. I have a sense of his heart.

'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.