: pithy paragraph

I'm reading "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. The principle character is Oskar Schell, a precocious nine-year-old boy, whose hobbies include: wearing only white clothes, playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" on his tambourine, and creating Edible Art based on Meteorological Phenomena.

You can tell you've got a good novel when there'a a passage that succinctly summarizes the way a character's mind works. At one point, Oskar Schell says:

"I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now, than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn't, because there aren't enough skulls."