I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

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.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.