In actual fact, no man is honest when sober; in actual fact, <b>you cannot believe a single word that a sober man says.</b> I wish I were drunk mysel… - Halldór Laxness

The love which demands nothing but beauty itself and lives in selfless worship . . . is the love that no disappointment can ever conquer, perhaps not even death itself (if that existed).

Because there are indeed women in Iceland, it will now be proven to you, you ugly wench, that there are also men in Iceland!

A long time ago they brought me here eastward over the heath, along with one Jón Þeófílusson from the Westfjörds, who was burned after the devil testified against him. And I've got one thing to say about that: a ladies' man like him, who could sit up in the gables an entire night holding on to a Blusterer while his girl was in bed with another man, didn't deserve any better, and that's why I told him so many times in the black pit, 'You'll definitely be burned.'