I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday.

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.

Europe is made of history, America of philosophy, Asia of prosperity, and Africa of opportunity.

Accept only the divine self.

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.

I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.