I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take for granted with a language that is spoken by 330,000 people.

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.

Give life no quarter…pursue it with passion and purpose

A man of vision cannot question his potentials. He does not doubt his capabilities. He keeps going because he had seen himself gone already in his visions.

With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that youre trying to accomplish.

Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.

Make your move BEFORE you are ready!

Maintain your physical, emotional, and spiritual harmony with the universe by meditating every day. Inhale the precious breath of life. It is your connection to your Higher power.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.