For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

I write what I write.

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

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.