Provide one quote and its importance.

He’d dragged in Chekhov to tell the class that the writer need not paint a picture of an ideal world, but only describe the actual world, without sermons, without judgment.”
-- Narrator (chapter 1)

Importance: This statement sets the tone for what will happen throughout the rest of the book; that what will be presented are the facts, but that the facts have a way of being skewed depending on who is looking at them.