“The universe wasn’t just stranger than you knew, it was stranger than you could know.”

“Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”

“Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.”

“They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.”

“No man is more of a stranger to you than you are to him. Receive him with trust.”

“You are most likely to respect a stranger more than you respect your parents and siblings, the people whom you know inside out.”

“His last thought, as sleep overtook him, was that it was true what Cosimo had said: the universe was far stranger than anyone imagined, or could imagine.”

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”

“The universe is always stranger than you think.
It didn’t matter how broad her imagination was, how cynical, how joyous and open, how well researched or wild minded. The universe was always stranger. Every dream, every imagining, however lavish and improbable, inevitably fell short of the truth.”

“The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.”