Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

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.

There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.

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