Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

- Peter Høeg

..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

- Peter Høeg

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also …

- Peter Høeg

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

- Peter Høeg

When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. E…

- Peter Høeg

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

- Peter Høeg

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

- Peter Høeg

When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doe…

- Peter Høeg

If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.

- Peter Høeg