There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.