Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don’t. And when they’re running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me.

Anton Chekhov put it best when he said, ‘If a pistol appears in a story, eventually it’s got to be fired.’