I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

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.

Distressed Hearts Have Similar Vibrations.

The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know.

Dating is the best inward and outward sign that you've moved on after a big break.

The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.

Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.

Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.

If you can't say yes, it's no. Don't sugarcoat it. Don't talk yourself into yes just to seem like a nice guy. No one ever went broke because he or she said "NO" too often.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.