Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

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

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.

I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously try to write something that is timeless?"

Is he weeping?" said the one with the softest heart.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

The kinds of things I want don't cost money.

For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.

Saintly people not only are responsible for themselves, but for everyone.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

I want people to know you can live a life that is less aggressive and still have success.

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.