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.

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

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.

Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.

After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

Most people like to live in illusions.

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.