Questions Books Ask

Related to a delightful dinner conversation in downtown Houston tonight with writing friends:

Is it possible, finally, for one human being to achieve perfect
understanding of another?

We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another
person, but in the end, how close are we able to come to the person's essence?
We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know
anything important about anyone?

The Wind-Up Book Chronicle

Haruki Murakami