Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery Quotes

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.