What’s the use of all your damn books?

Zorba: Why do the young die? Why does anybody die, tell me?
Scholar: I don’t know.
Zorba: What’s the use of all your damn books? If they don’t tell you that, what the hell do they tell you?
Scholar: They tell me about the agony of men who can’t answer questions like yours.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek