Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

Friendship is unnecessary like philosophy like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

When I write now I do not invent situation characters or actions but rather structures and discursive forms textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Until the Eighties Oslo was a rather boring town but it's changed a lot and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

I left science then I went into art but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face women have been trained to cut off anger.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.