Yohan Kim

“I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody.

They may be teaching that still.

Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’

I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation”
― Dennis Dutton, Art Instinct: zit kunst in onze genen?

“She says, trying uselessly to console me: 'What are you so long for in your face? Everybody forgets some small things, all the time!'

But if small things go, will large things be close behind?”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“For an instant, silence, noisier than a waterfall.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children