You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.