I Was A Really Bad Taxi Driver.

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.

Many Scandinavian Writers Who Had Made Their Name In Literary Fiction Felt They Wanted To Have A Go At The Crime Novel To Show They Could Compete With The Best. If Salman Rushdie Had Been Norwegian, He Would Definitely Have Written At Least One Thriller.

To Have The Chance Of Being Loved We Have To Take A Chance On Being Destroyed Inside

I'm Not A Big Crime Reader, But I'm Reading Michael Connelly's 'the Reversal.' I'm Going Back To His Novels. I'm Also Reading Keith Richards' 'life.' I'm Always Fascinated By The Transition From The Innocent Late '60s And Early '70s And The Youth Culture Becoming An Industry.

Not Even The Brightest Future Can Make Up For The Fact That No Roads Lead Back To What Came Before - To The Innocence Of Childhood Or The First Time We Fell In Love.