A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

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.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

Libraries can take the place of God.