All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.
Umberto EcoTrue learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
Umberto EcoIf photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
Umberto EcoBut why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .
Umberto Eco