I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
Umberto EcoAn idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
Umberto EcoEven today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto EcoThe author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
Umberto Eco