If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .