Write even when the world is chaotic.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

And third my Dad doesn't like you.He won't tell me whybut he's a smart man.If he doesn't like you I can't likeyou, either.

It’s a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots”.

My dad's a professor of medicine my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare. My older sister is a nurse my brother's in finance - I'm the runt of the litter.

You will be what you are, and whatever it is, you will be fine. Everyone has to accept that and love you for who you are; it doesn’t really matter where your heritage comes from

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

I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.

I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.