Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.