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.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

To survive, you must tell stories.