All Interesting Heroes Have An Achilles Heel.

Harry Looked At Bellman. He Could Not Help But Admire Him. The Way You Admire A Cockroach You Flush Down The Toilet And It Comes Creeping Back Again And Again And In The End It Inherits The World.

Until The Eighties, Oslo Was A Rather Boring Town, But It's Changed A Lot, And Is Now Much More Cosmopolitan. If I Go Downtown, I Visit The Harbour To See The Tall Ships And The Ferries, And To Admire The Modern Architecture Such As The Opera House Or The New Astrup Fearnley Museum On The Water's Edge.

We're Capable Of Understanding That Someone Has To Drop An Atomic Bomb On A Town Of Innocent Civilians, But Not That Others Have To Cut Up Prostitutes Who Spread Disease And Moral Depravity In The Slums Of London. Hence We Call The Former Realism And The Latter Madness.

At Nineteen I Was Pretty Sure I Was Going To Be A Professional Soccer Player. At That Time I Played For One Of The Norwegian Premier Leagues. But I Tore Ligaments In Both Knees, So I Started Studying Business Administration And Economics And Became A Financial Analyst, And I Worked At A Brokerage Firm As A Stockbroker.

I Think My Heart Is Quite Selfish. If I Followed My Heart, I Would Not Be A Good Person. But I Have Moral Principles. I Have To Sit Down And Reflect.