What I learned on my own I still remember

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.