"For instance, we have the largest Polish population of any city except for Warsaw, and the largest Lithuanian population outside Lithuania. More Italians, Greeks, Irish, Latinos, Serbians, and Croatians than you can shake a stick at. Chicago has it all, I don't know why I'd ever leave."

“Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.”

“The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.”

“What you have stolen can never be yours.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

“You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.”

“Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.”

“I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.”

“There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.”

“I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.