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.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?