Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.

To survive, you must tell stories.