Quotes from Jostein Gaarder

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

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