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

The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.

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.

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

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 only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.