“It makes no difference where one sleeps in God's City of Zion, the air is everywhere just as all-embracingly pleasing.”

“There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.”

“we should make clear (the) difference between freedom fighters and the terrorists. They Taliban are not terrorists. They are freedom fighters. Their detention is all illegal and it is all just to please America.”

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”

“The people with whom I grew up in the Vestmannaeyjar carried heaven within themselves; even if it was sixty fathoms at the end of a rope down a cliff, fowling, they were at home in God's City of Zion.”

“The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.”

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”

“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”

“Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.”

“A New York City taxi driver asked him where to go; Karajan replied "No matter - I am in demand everywhere."”