A Rat Is Neither Good Nor Evil.

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.

But Perhaps That's Why We Take Snaps...to Provide False Evidence To Underpin The False Claim That We Were Happy. Because The Thought That We Weren't Happy At Least For Some Time During Our Lives Is Unbearable. Adults Order Children To Smile In The Photos, Involve Them In The Lie, So We Smile, We Feign Happiness.

Normally I Start With A Plot, And Write A Synopsis, And The Ideas Come From The Construction.

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.

Intuition Is Just The Sum Of All Your Experience. The Way I See It, Everything You’ve Experienced, Everything You Know, You Think You Know And Didn’t Know You Knew Is There In Your Subconscious Lying Dormant, As It Were. As A Rule You Don’t Notice The Sleeping Creature, It’s Just There, Snoring And Absorbing New Things, Right. But Now And Then It Blinks, Stretches And Tells You, Hey, I’ve Seen This Picture Before. And Tells You Where In The Picture Things Belong.