The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.