Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.