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.

I'm very into science-fantasy that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

In politics as in religion it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Poetry is a sword of lightning ever unsheathed which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

I get up go and get a coffee and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

When the sword is once drawn the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

There is hidden or flaunted a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.