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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

I'm Norwegian.

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.

My Norwegian family says, 'You're the most grounded American we've ever met.'

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.