Nath Palathanarotch

“If he believed it all, he was just like those theologians who store their theology somewhere in a locked compartment of the brain, or rather, perhaps, like those travellers who carry a bottle of iodine in their luggage and take care to keep it tightly corked in case it leaks and ruins their belongings.”
― Halldór Laxness, The Fish Can Sing

“- So, what do you do?
- Nothing.
- What kind of nothing?
- The nothing kind of nothing.”
― Hallgrímur Helgason, 101 Reykjavik

“Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.”
― Nikolai Gógol

“Artists try to depict people; and people depict the artist's' conception of people.”
― Waguih Ghali, Beer in the Snooker Club