You can plan ahead, you just can’t worry ahead

Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6%. ...No one..really knows the extent of the parasites and the diseases they cause.

If you blink enough and relax a whole new world is opened to you.

Americans consider the United States an exceptional nation

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

We need to be willing to witness ourselves in all the shades of our humanness, and to come into the heart space daily and just hold ourselves with love and compassion.

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.