A Rat Is Neither Good Nor Evil.

What Do We Mean By 'crazy?' What Do We Mean By 'mad?' At What Point Is A Person Just Different And At What Point Can We Call It A Disease And Say That They Are Not Responsible For Their Actions? Or Are We All Slaves To The Chemical Processes That Go On In Our Brains?

I Feel More Related To Some American Crime Writers Than I Do To Stieg Larsson.

I Have Problems With A Religion Which Says That Faith In Itself Is Enough For A Ticket To Heaven. In Other Words, That The Ideal Is Your Ability To Manipulate Your Own Common Sense To Accept Something Your Intellect Rejects. It's The Same Model Of Intellectual Submission That Dictatorships Have Used Throughout Time, The Concept Of A Higher Reasoning Without Any Obligation To Discharge The Burden Of Proof.

You Get Spoiled As A Novelist Because You Get To Be The Director And The Editor, And You Play All The Parts, But As A Screenwriter, You Are A Bit Down The Ladder.

Ever Since The '70s, Maj Sjowall And Per Wahloo Were The Godfathers Of Scandinavian Crime. They Broke The Crime Novel In Scandinavia From The Kiosks And Into The Serious Bookstores.