People can be divided into these types: strangers, acquaintances, familiar people, friends, and close friends. True friendship isn't about compliments to your face, but whether you're mentioned when they talk about friends behind your back.
The novel is the highest example of subtle inter-relatedness that man has discovered. It is the book of life. In this sense, the Bible is a great confused novel. You may say, it is about God. But it is really about man alive.