We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are.

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.

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

I let her gobecause I knew she could do betterand now she's goneI wonderif I should've just been better.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I have never compromised on fundamentals. I've always believed in focusing on creating value and not valuation.

I don't feel pain. I ain't got time for that. I let other people feel pain for me.

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

Zen has no business with ideas.

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.