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?"

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 church should just stay out of people's pants.

If you can find happiness inside of you, nothing will be able to create angst in your mind.

My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend

Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

There’s always some level of optimism in every single song.

We're not going to end the Medicaid. We're going to give the governors more control and leeway to bring innovative reforms to make Medicaid work.