"I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is we're actually living on a planet in space. For me that's an extraordinary thought. It's mind-boggling just to think about the existence ..."
- Jostein Gaarder
"But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by chance."
"The of sitting a telescope in space was obviously not to get closer to the stars and planets the telescope was to study. That would have been about as daft as standing on tip-toe to get a better pictu..."
"But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds?"
"We are the universe."
"Perhaps we aren’t fully developed. The physical development of human beings necessarily had to precede the psychological. Perhaps the physical nature of the universe is merely a necessary external mat..."
"Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry."
"But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing."
"I can wait until my heart bleeds with sorrow."
"Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person."