We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

Death is never very pretty.

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.

There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.

Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

UFO's attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more I want to believe this, but I want it proved.

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.