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.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.