If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

Libraries can take the place of God.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.