All Interesting Heroes Have An Achilles Heel.

My Influence Is Probably More From American Crime Writers Than Any Europeans. And I Hardly Read Any Scandinavian Crime Before I Started Writing Myself. I Wasn't A Great Crime Reader To Begin With.

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.

A Rat Is Neither Good Nor Evil. It Does What A Rat Has To Do.

I've Read That It's The Smell Some Carnivores Use To Find Their Prey. Imagine The Trembling Victim Trying To Hide, But Knowing That The Smell Of Its Own Fear Will Kill It.

Phantom' Was For Me An Interesting Technique Of Telling The Story. You Have One Voice That It Is In The Present Telling What Is Happening, And Then There's One Voice From The Past That's Also Driving The Story Forward. And You Know That The Two Story Lines Will Meet Eventually.