I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.