I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

A great number of tourists have been flocking Iceland and those numbers are growing every year. That also raises questions like "How do we receive people?" and "How do we present our country?"

The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each other. I was 19, she was 16 and a friendship was made.

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

The creed of greed:Great Revenue Every Everlasting Day.(IN BANKS WE TRUST)

Locals. They’ll eventually get out. They’re annoyed. Like when Americans go to the lake. And it’s closed. ‘Cause some kid pooped in the water.

I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.

Your body is incredible at 'detoxing'. It's called pooping & sweating. Best 'detox diet' = regular exercise, eating more veggies, fruit, healthy fats, lean meat, some grains and drinking more water.

A soul living in tune with its internal purpose is bound to create utter magic.

There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.