…have you always been a jackass or is that something you’ve just recently acquired at the ‘I Want to be a Junior Jackass’ store? -Weasel to Army Lieutenant

Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority

If you run, you better be faster than my gun. -Weasel to illegal aliens

The public is very fickle as I was saying to my cabdriver Gerald Ford.

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?