The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar "queen", alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom