What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the peoples of our lands, but merely peoples...

We all die. We don't have to live our lives fearing it.

Until you have not been free, you cannot understand what freedom means.

The first two tracks were pop songs from the 1970s, sung in Danish in a style that was best described as Abba without joy.

Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...

You must choose the life you live at the time you live it.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

Barack Obama will go down alongside George W. Bush in that realm as middling presidents because both made too many mistakes to be categorized as an effective, good president.

The laugh is what trumps everything.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.