Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.

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.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion

How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this?

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.

If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.

You are the song of my mind, melody of my soul, dance of my spirit, and the indescribable ecstasy of my life.

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.