All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.
Umberto EcoThere are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
Umberto EcoBeing a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.
Umberto EcoYou don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.
Umberto Eco