If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.