"That's what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it - or my observation of it - is temporary?"
"You are fairly smart," I said after a while.
"You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

//John Green, The Fault in Our Stars