Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?
Umberto EcoMan's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?
Umberto EcoI have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.
Umberto EcoUsually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.
Umberto Eco