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.

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

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

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?"

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

My plan is to not be leading (worship) at any church until I really feel like I'm supposed to be somewhere else.

If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good.

The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running.

The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

Know the weapons of the weak, kill weakness of the heart and never fall asleep.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.