People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.

The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life. There was music in the forest. There was clean air where nobody could hear him breathe.

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"

We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?

When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come.

I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.