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

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.

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.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

Each marriage is a living thing, just as complex as the two individuals within it.

Good music will make you forget all your misery.

Life is only a part of Death, not Death is a part of Life..

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

When you find a teacher, you devote your time and energy to what they believe in. You surrender not them but to the infinite, which operates through them.

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.