Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.
Umberto EcoBut the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
Umberto EcoMan's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?
Umberto EcoTrue learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
Umberto Eco