Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world..

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and soc….

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music.

The evil always comes from details..

I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for t….

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee ….

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow..

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world..

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people..

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect demo….

Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, yo….

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost..

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of informati….

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost..

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings..

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as me….

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-e….

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative..

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time..