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

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take for granted with a language that is spoken by 330,000 people.

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.

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people are coming from all over. It is still changing society in a good way.