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

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.