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.

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.

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.

I followed the launch of the library with Margaret Atwood and then David Mitchell. I just sat quietly at home secretly envying them. Then just over a month ago she asked me if I would like to be the third author to join the library.

[ 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.

I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

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