“ Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person. Jostein Gaarder
“ 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. Jostein Gaarder
“ Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry. Jostein Gaarder
“ 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… Jostein Gaarder
“ 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? Jostein Gaarder
“ 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… 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. Jostein Gaarder
