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By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.
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I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.
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It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which man knows himself to be dependent, powers whose favors he needs, powers whose wrath he fears. Myths express the knowledge that man is not master of the world and his life, that the world within which he lives is full of riddles and mysteries and that human life also is full of riddles and mysteries.
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I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives
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While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.
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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
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I'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up.
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All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.
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My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
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I usually leave Reykavik for two to three weeks to go to the South Coast of Iceland where I have a small fisherman's hut from the beginning of the last century. That's where I sit down and do the actual writing. I might write for 16 hours a day or something. That's how it happens.
