Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.

— Jasper Fforde

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

— Jasper Fforde

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

— Jasper Fforde

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

— Jasper Fforde

Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?

— Jasper Fforde

Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.

— Jasper Fforde

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

— Jasper Fforde

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labor and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

— Jasper Fforde

Well, that's it." I said after we had waited for another five minutes and found ourselves still in a state of pleasantly welcome existence. "The Chronograph has shut itself down and time travel is as it should be: technically, logically, and theoretically...impossible." "Good thing, too," reply Landon. "It always made my head ache. In fact, I was thinking of doing self-help book for science-fiction novelists eager to write about time travel. It would consist of a single word: Don't.

— Jasper Fforde

What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the Book World] just as much as we need them—to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.

— Jasper Fforde