Good Police Officers Are Ugly.

Thanks To The Success Of Henning Mankell And Peter Hoeg, There Wasn't The Same Stigma Attached To Writing Genre Thrillers In Scandinavia As There Was In Many Other Cultures. Quite The Opposite, In Fact.

For Many Years, It Seemed As If Nothing Changed In Norway. You Could Leave The Country For Three Months, Travel The World, Through Coups D'etat, Assassinations, Famines, Massacres And Tsunamis, And Come Home To Find That The Only New Thing In The Newspapers Was The Crossword Puzzle.

I'm Afraid I Didn't Really Like Caracas In Venezuela. From What I Saw It Seemed So Crime-ridden That You Really Have To Be On Your Guard All The Time.

The Stock Market To Me Was Like A Video Game. When It Went Off, It Was Like Turning The Game Off. It Wasn't Something I'd Think About Until I'd Turn The Machine On Again.

What Is Worse? Taking The Life Of A Person Who Wants To Live Or Taking Death From A Person Who Wants To Die.