As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

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

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.