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.

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

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.

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.