I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.