Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.

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.

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?"

I don't aim to be the most important person in the world. I strive to constantly do my best, so as to manifest the best in me.

There comes a time when you just have to say, “No!” – to the requests and to the system.

A letter is the most basic—yet the most flexible—mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter.

Not many get to see this side of him. So, if you do, know that you’re lucky.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports?

The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation.

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

Putin is somebody who really respects strength.

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.