[ 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.

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] 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?"

Don’t grow older—grow wiser.

Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.

You know what I like about summer days? They're just made for doing things... even if it's nothing. Especially if it's nothing.

To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.

What difference does the uniform make? You don't hit with it.