I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

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.

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

Dream big! There is no limit to what you can achieve.

Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful

The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul.

Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

Donald Trump always puts himself first.

Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.