Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.