When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.