My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

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

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.