Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
Umberto EcoBut the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
Umberto EcoJacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.
Umberto Eco