It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

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.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.