Jo Nesbø

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Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living

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Bjarne Møller, my former boss, says people like me always choose the line of most resistance. It's in what he calls our 'accursed nature'. That's why we always end up on our own. I don't know. I like being alone. Perhaps I have grown to like my self-image of being a loner, too....I think you have to find something about yourself that you like in order to survive. Some people say being alone is unsociable and selfish. But you're independent and you don't drag others down with you, if that's the way you're heading. Many people are afraid of being alone. But it made me feel strong, free and invulnerable

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What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die

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Just imagine walking away from something you’ve started. Something you really believed would be good. I don’t think i could ever do that

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We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other people — it just wouldn’t suit them