It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
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.