The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Love is a greater mystery than death.

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR ABNORMALITY UNDER THIS ROOF!

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

They won't be a right be a right time, Thea, it doesn't exist. Just get it over with

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

Everybody mad when their paper don't stack right

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

G-strings are uncomfortable. Girls want real knickers now.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!