The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.

If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.